Develop apps using VB2008 w/o admin privileges?

[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

 

[Family Tree Mike]

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

I've found that to be true (admin rights required) with web development,
but not windows application development.

 

[Saga]

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

 

[Patrice]

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 ?)

 

[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 ?)

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