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user5994461 on June 12, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: When Employees Use Software That IT Hasn’t Approve...

Visual Studio does not require admin rights to run at all. It stopped needing that almost ten years ago.

The only exceptions are some parts of the C++ debugger and the driver development kit.

robgough on June 12, 2019 [–]

or anything to do with Service Fabric.

I'm not sure if your "almost ten years ago" is meant to be hyperbolic, or genuine... I can't even remember why, but I know the project I was on 6 years ago definitely needed visual studio to have admin access, and it was all standard C# app stuff (maybe WPF?)

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