>If I want to publish wcf web services to iis/was I have to run Visual Studio as administrator.
>There is no problem doing this but is there a way around having to do this? >Apart from this, I have not needed to do this for any other development work. Peter, this general topic has been bugging me for years. Perhaps 5 years ago I spent a whole afternoon trying to get my development environment working as usual under a normal User account, but I got bogged down on hitting F5 in ASP.NET apps. I gave up back then. Several months ago I purchased The .NET Developer's Guide to Windows Security by Keith Brown, and it has a whole chapter on how to develop as an non-admin. Sadly, the book is so old that Framework 2 was just released, so most of the advice in the chapter is now obsolete. I got all excited back then and had another go at non-admin development, but I had to give up again. I do develop now as a domain user account in the local Administrators group, so I still need elevation prompts and "run as admin" shortcuts, which I don't mind. The whole IIS-admin-developer topic is irritating. If anyone here does smooth IIS development as a non-admin I'd like to hear what tricks you use. Greg
