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Monday, 22 November 2010

Adding service reference gives the system cannot find the path specified error

I got an "The system cannot find the path specified." error box pop up when I tried to add a WCF web service reference to my web project. Problem with Service References?

Every time I tried to add the service reference to another WCF service I had set up in another web project I kept getting "The system cannot find the path specified." pop up in an alert box in Visual Studio 2010.

Solution

Somewhere along the line I had deleted the "Service References" folder from the project folder I was trying to add the reference to. It is simply solved by creating an new folder (in Windows Explorer) in the correct location called "Service References". Problem solved

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Posted by Colin Farr at Monday, November 22, 2010 Labels: ,

34 comments:

  1. Anonymous28 April 2011 at 18:42

    thanx a lot!!

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  2. Unknown13 November 2013 at 12:48

    A big thanks for posting this update.

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  3. Anonymous19 September 2014 at 06:57

    Thanks! A simple solution :)

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  7. Jairo Martínez4 December 2019 at 04:31

    Thanks a lot!!! Also works for me...

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  8. Haris Baig12 December 2019 at 11:02

    Works for me :) Thanks

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  9. MrZatego25 December 2019 at 15:23

    Update for everyone who googles this in 2020: With Visual Studio 2019 the folder needs to be named "Connected Services", not "Service References"

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  10. The Improver28 January 2020 at 15:42

    One decade on, still a good tip!

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  12. Anonymous27 May 2020 at 22:53

    Just saved me much time I'm sure, this all goes the same for the "Web References" folder

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    thank you!

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  16. Unknown18 December 2020 at 02:12

    it worked for me. thank u!!!

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    thank you

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  24. Arturo AcSan24 January 2024 at 20:06

    Thanks a lot! I had this issue with VS 2019 en VB on .NET 4.5. The creation of the folder solved the issue.

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  25. Ryan Russon28 February 2024 at 01:15

    Wow. Over an hour on StackOverflow, half a dozen pointless Copilot prompts, and nothing worked until I found this. Visual Studio (as recent as 2022 preview) needs a bug fix or at least a better error message. Thanks!!!

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    Thanks alot! That error message is not helpfull.

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