Visual-studio – Limitations in Visual Studio 2008 when using limited account privileges

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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

Best Answer

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
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