Import Visual Studio 2010 C # templates without admin

Question

Hi,

Can i somehow , make a new project and just manually download a template from the internet with my BROWSER not by Visual Studio.

And New Project -> Import Template or Browse somehow for a template ... without an admin ? Because i would need to install a template .. and for that i need an admin...

Thanks.

Answer 1

 

On the elopement machine using VS, you should be admin on the machine to

effectively develop .NET solutions. If you are not admin on the machine,

then there is something wrong.

 

Answer 2

That is incorrect.  You don't need to be an admin to use VS.  Admin privileges haven't been required since VS2008 except in rare cases (such as when you are debugging against an IIS instance).  I've been running without admin privileges since the XP days. 

In the early days the Debugger Users group was generated to allow you to expose the few system rights you needed to debug but I don't know that it is even necessary in Vista+.  I still create the group and assign the Debug Program rights to it but in Vista+ with UAC enabled Administrators already have that permission and VS doesn't seem to have an issue with a token not being elevated.  Hence you don't need to be an admin (although you might want it so you can install stuff).

You don't need admin privileges to install templates either.  Custom templates are stored under your documents directory. All you need to do is download the template and then copy the zip file to the Templates directory under your documents directory.  VS will pick up the template automatically.

Michael Taylor - 5/3/2012
http://msmvps.com/blogs/p3net