Question

I’ve written a WCF service which tries to read the list items from a particular list in SharePoint. For testing purposes I run the WCF service using Visual Studio ASP.Net Development server. I pass the Site ID to the web service and from the web service I try to open the List and read the items. But when I try to read the items I’m getting the following error –

This operation can be performed only
on a computer that is joined to a
server farm by users who have
permissions in SQL Server to read from
the configuration database. To connect
this server to the server farm, use
the SharePoint Products and
Technologies Configuration Wizard,
located on the Start menu in
Administrative Tools.

Here are some facts –

1. I’m using SharePoint 2007 x64 in
   Windows Server 2008 x64 and it is a
   single server installation (no farm)
2. I’m a Farm administrator
3. I’m a System Administrator (but not
   domain administrator)
4. I’m a SysAdmin for the SQL Server
   2005 server in which is SharePoint
   is having its databases
5. I’m the Site Collection
   Administrator in which the List is
   present
6. I opened Visual Studio 2010 as
   adminsitrator
7. In task manager, the ASP.Net
   development server process is
   running under my account

I don’t have any idea why I’m getting that error. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Okie. I found the issue. It is related to the same problem which I’ve been facing since I switched to x64 development in SharePoint 2007. When I deployed the WCF service to IIS everything worked fine.

Using Visual Studio 2010 (no matter what my target platform of my project is) I’ve never been able to access SharePoint content through a simple console application or a simple asp.net web application. I’ve clearly understood that the problem is with the x86 x64 stuffs and I’ve not been able to resolve it till now. I’ve been haunted by this for so long now.

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