“CS0016: Could not write to output file” error when starting an app in IIS 7

Question

I am running Windows 7, and am not usually a developer in this setting, and have recently built a WCF Rest Service in C#, that I\'m now trying to deploy to IIS just on my lo

Answer 1

On Windows 8 absolutely nothing worked for me. One day app pools suddenly decided they no longer want to work under the NetworkService account.

I solved the problem by changing the app pool to work under my own user account. Not a great solution I know, but it worked.