Bob wrote:
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>>From your description of the problem it seems like I wouldn't have
this problem if I ran Visual Studio not as an administrator but when I
try to do that it gives me some very frightening error message that my
project "could not be opened because the Microsoft Visual c# 2005
compiler could not be created. Please re-install Visual Studio".
I have been barely following this thread, mainly because the issue is so
foreign to me. It's not something I've ever seen, and so I don't really
have any suggestions for how to fix it.
That said, I can confirm without reservation that Visual Studio 2005
works fine when run without administrator privileges, at least under
Windows XP. You'll want to run it once as an admin, so that it can set
some stuff up, but that's not strictly necessary (I was able to create a
project, compile, and run it all without admin privileges) and you only
have to do it once.
If you are getting some other error running not as an admin, there is
something else unusual going on with your configuration, and your time
would probably be better spent figuring that out.
Of course, on top of all that, I have no good explanation for why your
application cannot use a network drive depending on which user it's run
under. I've never had that issue before, with VS or any other
application for that matter. Drive connections work for me regardless
of user privileges.
Are you running Vista? I'm not, so if you are that could explain why I
haven't run into that sort of thing.
Pete