SharePoint: Install and enable a feature, get access denied error

Question

I have created a SharePoint Timer from an Empty SharePoint project in VS2010. I have a class that inherits from SPJobDefinition.

I have the constructors, Execute method, et cetera. I also have a Feature which has a FeatureActivated and FeatureDeactivating event.

I am in Visual Studio as an administrator and I am farm admin on the server.

I am encountering 2 issues:

1. In Visual Studio I right click on the project and click 'Deploy' and I get 
an error.

Error occurred in deployment step 'Recycle IIS Application Pool':
<nativehr>0x80070005</nativehr><nativestack></nativestack>Access denied.

2. The tutorials I have been following mention that in the Feature folder 
there will be a feature.xml however my features folder does not have that file,
am I missing something?

Edit:

On a tutorial it says to copy files to %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\TEMPLATE\FEATURES\

It also says each feature has its own subdirectory. At the root of this folder, a Feature.xml

I build the solution, go into the project folder then Features and there is no feature.xml

When I open the feature there is nothing in the "Items in this solution" box, is that right?

The machine with VS is the same machine with SP.

Have you tried deploying the .wsp directly with powershell? The problem is most likely, that the user on the machine running VS has no t sufficient rights on your SP machine, unless both are running on the same machine, which would be weird — Marco

Corey Roth Corey Roth · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-19T18:50:54

Try running Visual Studio as an administrator. You also need to make sure your account has permissions (dbowner) I think on the content database of the web application that you are deploying to.

SharePoint: Install and enable a feature, get access denied error

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