Limitations in Visual Studio 2008 when using limited account privileges

Question

Hi,

Unfortunately I lack admin rights on my machine at work. This makes me wonder, what limitations are there when doing development in Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition? I believe one of these limitations may be in not being able to write to the file system?

What else applies? Can I write to "My Documents" (using XP Pro)?

Thanks

Answer 1

For most day to day operations, running Visual Studio as a non-administrative user prevents no problems. I run it as a limited user on pretty much all of my machines are rarely encounter an issue with doing so.

That being said there are a couple of limitations

• Can run certain types of profile operations as a limited user
• Certain remote debugging scenarios require admin priviledges
• In a default configuration, deploying to local IIS installations in II6 requires admin privs

Answer 2

The only thing that I know is not possible without admin permissions is to have a Web APplication Project that has the "Use IIS" setting set to true under the web options.