My copy of the book The .NET Developers Guide to Windows Security by Keith Brown was delivered this morning. Inspired by his tips on how to develop as a non-admin I thought I'd have another bash at it. I was going well until I tried to open a VS2010 solution with an ASP.NET project and I got the usual error:
To access local IIS Web sites, you must run Visual Studio in the context of an administrator account. Keith reckons this is fixed by adding your user account to the Debugger Users and VS Developers groups, but this book is 5 years old and these groups don't seem to exist anymore. I can runas devenv.exe as an Administrator, manually enter the name and password every time, but it will create a new profile and make a mess. I gave up and returned to having my domain user account as a local administrator. Is anyone here successfully developing as a non-admin? Greg
