 <p>Are you doing a web application? I believe that for non-web applications, you do not need admin rights.</p> <p>If this is not a web application, maybe it's just a file system permissions issue?</p> <p>From:</p> <p><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165100.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms165100.aspx</a></p> <p>"User permission requirements for Visual Studio vary depending on the operating system and the Visual Studio version. On Windows Vista, Visual Studio 2008 does not require administrator permissions to perform most tasks, but Visual Studio 2005 must run under administrator permissions to perform tasks correctly. On Windows Server 2003 and earlier, members of the Users group can perform most activities in the integrated development environment (IDE)."</p>