I’m stumped. There are several threads out there that reference a similar problem, but not the same one. I’m trying to get a simple WCF service up and running in Azure, but my problem is happening before I even deploy. I’m following this article:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cloud-services-how-to-create-deploy/
Which says to create your project, build the “Hello World” service interface and class, and then start your project locally. I get a 403 error when I try to start my project.
The only step I’m not following exactly is that I don’t have a “Start Without Debugging” option (I’m using Visual Studio Express Web Developer), so I just push “Start Debugging.”
Why would I get a 403 error on my own machine? I am running Visual Studio as Administrator.
The problem went away when I upgraded to VS 2010 Pro. I never fixed it on Express, but after upgrading the problem was gone … I had the “Start without Debugging” option in the Pro edition, so I suspect that the problem may have been specific to Express.