Hey what about the new lite IIS (forget its name now) I saw released recently... maybe you can develop against that (I'm sure you can), but in user mode/Non-Admin?
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: >>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 > >
