Cfrgtkky

I am trying to create a Windows service which listens on a particular port for an incoming serialized object and then performs some action, however every time I start I get the following error:

System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (0x80004005): Only one usage of each socket address (protocol/network address/port) is normally permitted

Here is the code that's running:

 protected override void OnStart(string args)

        {

                Thread t = new Thread(Server.StartServer);

                t.Start();

        }

The StartServer method looks like this:

public static void StartServer()

    {

        TcpListener server = null;

        try

        {

            server = new TcpListener(IPAddress.Loopback, 8889);

            server.Start();

        }

        catch(Exception e)

        {

            //write to a log file and close

        }



        for (; ; )

        //Some more code that handles the serialization etc

The message seems to state that something else is already listening on that socket however when I take a look using CMD and netstat -a I see nothing on that port, and it seems to occur regardless of what I change the listening port to. The exception occurs on the line "server = new TcpListener(IPAddress.Loopback, 8889);".

Why does this error occur and how am I able to make this work properly?

*Edited to note that I have also tried this as a console app and it seems to work, it only fails when running as a Windows Service