It is always fun to return to one of my favorite topics: Errors and warnings, causes and solutions – aka Troubleshooting! Regardless of the technology, language, or service we are using. Today’s problem was another classic (and annoying) issue that happened while I was migrating an old BizTalk Server 2013 solution into a recent version of the BizTalk Server.
While trying to deploy a BizTalk Server Visual Studio solution that I copied from the old developer server environment into the new environment using, of course, Visual Studio, I got the following error message:
Access to the path is denied.
Causes
As the error clearly mentions, Visual Studio is trying to access somewhere that it does not have access to, even if you are an admin and you open in admin mode. The reason for that is that many times, when we copy the files between servers, they may become read-only for various reasons/situations. Maybe the files already were in read-only mode before we copied them.
Solutions
The solution is quite simple to accomplish:
- Go to the project folder of your solution.
- Right-click on the project folder and choose Properties from the menu.
- Now, On the <folder-name> Properties window, go to the Attributes panel under the General tab and turn off the Read-only option. Click on the OK to apply the changes.
- A new Confirm Attribute Changes window may rise, asking if you to confirm. Make sure you select the option Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files and click OK.
After that, if you go to your BizTalk Server Visual Studio solution you will be able to successfully deploy it to the new environment.
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