title: Accessing SharePoint content (list) from a WCF service
body: <p>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 -</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>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.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>Here are some facts -</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>I'm using SharePoint 2007 x64 in
  Windows Server 2008 x64 and it is a
  single server installation (no farm)</li>
  <li>I'm a Farm administrator</li>
  <li>I'm a System Administrator (but not
  domain administrator)</li>
  <li>I'm a SysAdmin for the SQL Server
  2005 server in which is SharePoint
  is having its databases</li>
  <li>I'm the Site Collection
  Administrator in which the List is
  present</li>
  <li>I opened Visual Studio 2010 as
  adminsitrator</li>
  <li>In task manager, the ASP.Net
  development server process is
  running under my account</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I don't have any idea why I'm getting that error. Any ideas?</p>