R – Do you still use the .Net Configuration tool to give Visual Studio 2008 SP1 access permissions to code on a network drive? If so where is it

If you are NOT using Active Directory, then ignore all of the other solutions mentioned here. The confusion stems from the new ApplicationPoolIdentity setting default in IIS 7.5+ (MS keeps changing the identity mechianisms)

1. Open SQL Management Studio, connect to your local machine as an admin.
2. Expand the Security branch.
3. Right click on Logins and select New Login
4. Into the Login Name field, type "IIS APPPOOL\MyApplicationName". Do NOT click the search button. The user profile dosn't actually exist on the local machine, it's dynamically created on demand.

While you're looking at it, don't forget to add the user to a database or a server role.

You can configure the security with caspol.exe, without needing the msc. However, it would be easier to use ClickOnce deployment ("publish") from VS2005 - this avoids most of the security issues with network shares (but can be hosted on a network share).