How to Debug WCF Project Using Visual Studio as Non Administrator

Thanks for your reply, actually its not exactly about VS, I have admin rights on my local computer and can run WCF project, but in client's server machine, we have one account, under that account WCF project/service is running in production.

From next month, they are planning to remove the admin previleges to our account, then WCF project/service might not run in that case.

As part of this, as a developer I just tried to replicate this scenario and got the above exception "The service endpoint failed..." in my local.

We need to find alternate solution, where WCF project/service should continue running under Non-Admin account as well. Hope you understand my concern now. Thanks.

You can run the service under Local System account or NETWORK SERVICE account

Hi Mudassar,

I tried boht i.;e Local System account and NETWORK SERVICE account, its still not working.

@snow rider 3d You've already tried modifying the SMSvcHost.exe.config file, which is good. However, make sure you're modifying the correct file. The file should be located in one of these paths:

• For a system-wide configuration: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\SMSvcHost.exe.config

• Or, for a user-specific configuration: %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Professional\SMSvcHost.exe.config

Ensure that you’re specifying the correct user in the allowAccounts section of the config file.