Develop apps using VB2008 w/o admin privileges?

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Hello all,

I am getting started with VS2008, I just installed it on my work PC with
Win XP SP2. I am; however, noticing that apparently I need local admin
privileges to get any project started. Is this correct? Are any of you
developing apps with VB 2008 who do not have admin privileges? I
have Power User (PU) privileges at this time. Is there any way to put
together an app using this product with only these (PU) privileges?

Since I had to install another system app I was given temp admin
privileges, so the VS 2008 install went well, but when I restarted
Windows the next day to finish the VS 2008 install my admin privileges
were gone and whatever finishing process ran mentioned this. And
of course, I was not able to install VS 2008 SP1. I am now wondering
if I will be able to do aything at all with the current privileges that I
have.
Thanks for your input! Saga
 
Hello all,

I am getting started with VS2008, I just installed it on my work PC with
Win XP SP2. I am; however, noticing that apparently I need local admin
privileges to get any project started. Is this correct? Are any of you
developing apps with VB 2008 who do not have admin privileges? I
have Power User (PU) privileges at this time. Is there any way to put
together an app using this product with only these (PU) privileges?

Since I had to install another system app I was given temp admin
privileges, so the VS 2008 install went well, but when I restarted
Windows the next day to finish the VS 2008 install my admin privileges
were gone and whatever finishing process ran mentioned this. And
of course, I was not able to install VS 2008 SP1. I am now wondering
if I will be able to do aything at all with the current privileges that I
have.
Thanks for your input! Saga
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I've found that to be true (admin rights required) with web development,
but not windows application development.
 
I am just not sure if your statement is accurate. I am frantically
deleting trash file to make room for projects, so I had not gotten
to test drive VS 2008 until today. I started the IDE, selected VB
dev. and proceeded to create a new project.

I selected Windows Forms Application, named the solution and
clicked Ok button and this this message:

Requested Registry access is not allowed

Ok, so then I tried selecting Class Library then Console Application
then Windows Service and finally Empty Project and all gave me
the same message. So now I am Googling instructions on how to
twiddle thumbs. Sigh. Thanks again for your input, Saga
 
Works here. It could be perhaps :
1) that the restart needed to be done with an admin account ?
2) that the install is best done under an admin account rather than under an
account who has temporarily an admin access ?

A tool such as http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx
will alllow to find out what is accessed in the registry. IMO something went
wrong during setup (or an AV software blocks this ?)
 
Patrice said:
Works here. It could be perhaps :
1) that the restart needed to be done with an admin account ?
2) that the install is best done under an admin account rather than under
an account who has temporarily an admin access ?

A tool such as
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx will alllow
to find out what is accessed in the registry. IMO something went wrong
during setup (or an AV software blocks this ?)
Click to expand...

Thank you for your input. I will consider each point carefully.

I had admin rights when I installed VS 2008 Pro. Since it
was late I left the PC running the porcess. The next morning
I had the "Finished sucessfully" screen. I exited that, the process
indicated that a reboot was necessary so I did that, but to my
dismay when Windows restarted the process told me I needed
admin rights. Although I finished the install process w/o admin
rights, the process did not complain or indicate any error.

If necessary I will uninstall all and reinstall having admin rights
when I retstart Windows. Again, thanks! Saga
 
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