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title: "windows phone 8 emulator showing error when connecting to wcf service"  
description: "windows phone 8 emulator showing error when connecting to wcf service"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2015-05-01  
updated: 2015-05-01  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/23168/windows-phone-8-emulator-showing-error-when-connecting-to-wcf-service  
category: "windows phone"  
tags: ["windows phone", "wcf data services", "windows phone 8"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# windows phone 8 emulator showing error when connecting to wcf service

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## Replies

### Reply by Anonymous User

i assume you tried to connect the Windows phone 8 emulator to the localhost wcf service? this won't work because the emulator is in a virtual machine but there are steps to fix it:


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