What user does Visual Studio 2008 use when debugging?

Question

I have a web application that accesses Windows resources on another server. The code is fine and when I run it through the debugger it's able to see the remote resources without any difficulty, but when I put the code into IIS it fails with ACCESS_DENIED. I'm trying to see what rights I need to give to the web application.

Difficulty: We're a startup and don't have a domain, so no domain admin accounts. This is why I'm trying to find out how VS2008 runs when it's in debug mode, since however that runs is one way that I know the security works.

Answer 1

When using IIS, you need to ensure 'IIS_IUSRS' user has Access Rights to the Website Folder. You can do that from the 'Security' tab for that folder

Answer 2

When you are running the site using the internal web server in VS 2008 the code runs as you, the developer.