I've been happily developing with Visual Studio 2005 under Windows XP as a non-admin user for the past 12 months. Setting up a program (in this case Visual Studio) to always run as Administrator is not and will never be an acceptable workaround/solution.

Jason,
You should send your feedback to the Visual Studio team if that is the way you feel. Due to changes in Vista's security model from XP, Visual Studio has to be run as admin. As of right now, even with the Vista update for Visual Studio installed, you have to run VS as an admin process to be able to debug. After installing the Vista update for Visual Studio, everytime you launch Visual Studio you will get a pop-up dialog stating that you should be running the process as administrator if you want things to work correctly. I am not sure if they will change this before the final release (I doubt it).

It is absolutely not necessary to run VS as admin all the time..!

Do you need that for developing WinForms or Console apps - of course not.

There are some occassions where admin privs are needed e.g.
debugging applications in different security contexts (e.g. a NT Service or ASP.NET),
registering COM objects or creating applications in IIS.

It IS recommended to develop/test your applications in the target security context -
and thats the message you should send!

Otherwise developers will develop apps as admins which also only run as admin
and in turn force their users to run as admin too. vicious circle

cheers,
dominick

Who cares if you are running Visual Studio 2005 with Run as Administrator in Compatability mode, to my understanding of thow that works is it's not elevating your privileges its actually just falsifying your privileges because the app explicitly checks for your role and throws an exception if you arent an administrator. So the compatability mode simply tells VS your an admin even if you arent. I may be wrong but I believe thats how the compatability stuff works for vista.

Hi,

I was just wondering if you knew if VS2005 can run on Vista Home edition. Planning on upgrading to the business edition later on.

Thanks, Jon

Hey Jon. As far as I know VS2005 should run fine on Vista Home edition. Keep in mind though that Home Edition does not have IIS, so you will have to try to use VS2005's built-in web server.

MY problem has been that VS always crashes when I open up a remote website. I have VSS and FPSE. We have a couple of developers and we need to do it this way. I've heard some others are having the same problem. Did all the things you recommended....

I have brought a new laptop and it's got Vista business on. Tried installing all the relevant upgrades for VS2005 express and SQL Server 2005 express to be "vista compatible" but hey no - it doesn't work. After running the website from VWD, the application graphics become corrupt and if trying to use a local sql server database, it tells me sqlservr.exe has stopped.

What more can you do? I've upgraded everything possible !!

@Mark - I haven't tried opening up a remote site via FPSE on Vista. Recently I've been using the built-in FTP features for publishing my sites.

@Jon - I have also had problems running sql server express on my Vista machine. Not sure what to do about that one.

i'm the visual studio 2005 on vista guinea pig in our dev group and i'm running into a problem that i can't get around. while debugging the debugger will just stop working, it won't detach from the process it just stops working. i lose my breakpoints and my position in the code, the IDE shows that i'm in debug (the pause button is selected) but i can't do anything in the code (F10, F11 or F5 won't work). i've been searching high and low for a solution to no avail, has anyone else heard of or experienced this issue. i'm using IIS7 and have gone though every configuration article/blog i can find.

I've got the same problem as Mark Lanio. If I try and open a remote website it blows up. :-(

Elevation is all it needed for debugging. Many thanks!

Thank you for the Fix!!!! Your the only fix that works!!!

hi,
i have plans to open a new software development company. can someone let me knoow wat would be the best hardware configuration as i wanna use visual studio 2005, Microsoft SQL Server platform for development.

is it better to use vista or xp. budjet is no constraint pls advice.
anup

also will someone help as so as how to save information in database in asp.net visual studio, without coding much or some easy way... pls give in a simple example...
anup

I have a problem getting projects created in Visual Studio 2005 on XP machines to work in Visual Studio 2005 on a Vista machine. I have installed everything as instructed and tried running as Admin and in XP compatible mode.

The problem is that on build, I get errors indicating that all the controls on forms are not declared AND that I need a "withEvents variable" for button click subs.

If I create new projects from scratch in Visual Studio 2005 on the Vista machine the code comes out exactly as it does on the XP machine BUT there are no build errors. Button click subs created do not have a "withevents variable" but there is no error.

Any ideas? I feel like setting up my machine to dual boot Vista and XP and installing VS 2005 in XP.

Thanks for any help.
noel

many many thanks to you! my problem is solved!

I hope this helps....

http://fun-with-blackhawk.blogspot.com/2007/11/debug-aspnet-apps-on-vista.html

Thanks for the article

hEy i iNstallEd Visual sTudio 2oo5 in my vISta window
and started d personal website in that
but when i run that
an error came sqlsrver.exe has stopped working nd whn i click on close of tht error box

den d page shows dis error

Server Error in '/WebSite2' Application.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance. The connection will be closed.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

SQLExpress database file auto-creation error:


The connection string specifies a local Sql Server Express instance using a database location within the applications App_Data directory. The provider attempted to automatically create the application services database because the provider determined that the database does not exist. The following configuration requirements are necessary to successfully check for existence of the application services database and automatically create the application services database:


If the applications App_Data directory does not already exist, the web server account must have read and write access to the applications directory. This is necessary because the web server account will automatically create the App_Data directory if it does not already exist.
If the applications App_Data directory already exists, the web server account only requires read and write access to the applications App_Data directory. This is necessary because the web server account will attempt to verify that the Sql Server Express database already exists within the applications App_Data directory. Revoking read access on the App_Data directory from the web server account will prevent the provider from correctly determining if the Sql Server Express database already exists. This will cause an error when the provider attempts to create a duplicate of an already existing database. Write access is required because the web server accounts credentials are used when creating the new database.
Sql Server Express must be installed on the machine.
The process identity for the web server account must have a local user profile. See the readme document for details on how to create a local user profile for both machine and domain accounts.


Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:


[SqlException (0x80131904): Failed to generate a user instance of SQL Server due to a failure in starting the process for the user instance. The connection will be closed.]
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnection.OnError(SqlException exception, Boolean breakConnection) +171
System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.ThrowExceptionAndWarning(TdsParserStateObject stateObj) +199
System.Data.SqlClient.TdsParser.Run(RunBehavior runBehavior, SqlCommand cmdHandler, SqlDataReader dataStream, BulkCopySimpleResultSet bulkCopyHandler, TdsParserStateObject stateObj) +2406
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.CompleteLogin(Boolean enlistOK) +34
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.AttemptOneLogin(ServerInfo serverInfo, String newPassword, Boolean ignoreSniOpenTimeout, Int64 timerExpire, SqlConnection owningObject) +223
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.LoginNoFailover(String host, String newPassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance, SqlConnection owningObject, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, Int64 timerStart) +371
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds.OpenLoginEnlist(SqlConnection owningObject, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, String newPassword, Boolean redirectedUserInstance) +184
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlInternalConnectionTds..ctor(DbConnectionPoolIdentity identity, SqlConnectionString connectionOptions, Object providerInfo, String newPassword, SqlConnection owningObject, Boolean redirectedUserInstance) +193
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnectionFactory.CreateConnection(DbConnectionOptions options, Object poolGroupProviderInfo, DbConnectionPool pool, DbConnection owningConnection) +219
System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.CreateNonPooledConnection(DbConnection owningConnection, DbConnectionPoolGroup poolGroup) +27
System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionFactory.GetConnection(DbConnection owningConnection) +49
System.Data.ProviderBase.DbConnectionClosed.OpenConnection(DbConnection outerConnection, DbConnectionFactory connectionFactory) +89
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection.Open() +160
System.Web.Management.SqlServices.GetSqlConnection(String server, String user, String password, Boolean trusted, String connectionString) +67

[HttpException (0x80004005): Unable to connect to SQL Server database.]
System.Web.Management.SqlServices.GetSqlConnection(String server, String user, String password, Boolean trusted, String connectionString) +123
System.Web.Management.SqlServices.SetupApplicationServices(String server, String user, String password, Boolean trusted, String connectionString, String database, String dbFileName, SqlFeatures features, Boolean install) +89
System.Web.Management.SqlServices.Install(String database, String dbFileName, String connectionString) +26
System.Web.DataAccess.SqlConnectionHelper.CreateMdfFile(String fullFileName, String dataDir, String connectionString) +386


Please help me oUt
as i am not able to guess what is wrong ...........

Hey Jon. As far as I know VS2005 should run fine on Vista Home edition.

Hi all,

I have Vista Premium and Visual Studio 2005 Installed with sp1 and vista update.

My problem is that after a successful build of the app and the setup. The app installs successfully into program files but when the app tries to update is throws an exception and says the app does not have permission to write to program files directory.

Something to do with vistas security.

Does anyone know how i can get my app to be able to write to program files dir.

Thanks..

i'll upgrade my computer to be able to use vista+vs 2005 . Thanks for this great article.

thanks a lot..

Thanks so much.

I had other issues with Vista SP1, VS 2005 and IIS 7 and I have written a post here http://developershelf.blogspot.com/2008/05/problem-loading-iis7-hosted-wap.html

Great and excellent article it’s realy helpful. Thanks again.

I had other issues with Vista SP1, VS 2005 and IIS 7 and I have written a post here

I had other issues with Vista SP1, VS 2005 and IIS 7 and I have written a post here

thanks a lot..

Thanks so much.

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Thanks so much.

Thanks cANIM

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