Visual Studio Extensions for Windows SharePoint Services 1.3 (VSeWSS 1.3) tends to make my life easier unless I'm typing out the words that make up the VSeWSS acronym - really, what a mouthful. But one of the problems that I routinely encounter are error messages when trying to deploy solutions. These normally look something like the following:
Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED))
I tried a variety of steps to resolve this issue:
- Recycling the application pool
- Restarting IIS
- Closing Visual Studio
- Not detaching from the debugger until a request was fully completed
- Logging off and logging back into Windows
- etc.
Nothing actually worked. Some of these resolution attempts seemed to help keep the problem from happening quite as frequently, but I still have no idea what EXACTLY causes the problem and it would rear its ugly head from time to time. Unfortunately, the only resolution I found that seemed to work was to reboot the machine . which is a crappy resolution.
Finally sick enough of the problem to spend some time on it, I went on a search and tried to figure out if anyone else was having this issue. People seem to suggest that turning off the Indexing Service on your machine helps resolve this problem. I tried turning it off but I kept having issues. Which was depressing.
Fortunately, I stumbled upon the resolution when I was looking through the services list. If you encounter the issue, all you have to do is reset the World Wide Web Publishing Service. I've had a 100% success rate so far with this approach. I'm not sure if having the Indexing Service is part of the solution, but I've kept it disabled for the time being because I'm really sick of having to reboot my machine to deal with that error message.
If you do VSeWSS development, you may also want to check out this blog post:
VSeWSS 1.3 - Getting around the "Unable to load one or more of the requested types" Error