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visual-studio-2010windows-7
Jonathan Allen
Jonathan Allen

Reputation: 70277

VS 2010: Is there a workaround for the administrator requirement?

Aside from running as a administrator, is there any workaround for this requirement?

xxx.vbproj : error : The Web Application Project XXX is configured to use IIS. To access local IIS Web sites, you must install the following IIS components:

In addition, you must run Visual Studio in the context of an administrator account.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 955

Answers (4)

Sakthivelu
Sakthivelu

Reputation: 1

You need to open your Visual Studio as a administrator (Right click o)

Upvotes: 0

Dirk Vollmar
Dirk Vollmar

Reputation: 176159

One option - though not recommended by Microsoft - is to turn off User Account Control (UAC):

Disable User Account Control (UAC) in Windows 7

Upvotes: 1

Jaxidian
Jaxidian

Reputation: 13511

If you do not want to run as an administrator, then host using the Developer Web Server (Cassini) rather than IIS.

Upvotes: 2

IBhadelia
IBhadelia

Reputation: 291

You can active Administrator account and use that account you never get this issue. you can find this post which also works in windws7.

http://knowledgebaseworld.blogspot.com/2009/05/how-to-login-as-administrator-in.html

imran

Upvotes: 0

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