Hi Greg, Scott Guthrie blogged about IIS Express recently http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/28/introducing-iis-express.aspx
*"It does not require an administrator account to run/debug applications from Visual Studio"* Could be what you're looking for. Of course it's in beta... Greg. On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Greg Keogh <g...@mira.net> wrote: > 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<http://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 >
