Visual Studio output file permissions?

Question

I\'am using Visual Studio 2010, how to set or automatically change owner of the output file from Visual Studio (such as executable file) to user other than administrator?

Answer 1

Well, the file as it is created will be owned by the creator, if you are running Visual Studio as an administrator you are just stuck with it that way from an owner perspective.

Personally, unless you are using IIS for Web Applications I find myself running Visual Studio as a regular user more and more frequently, at least with VS 2010.

In regards to the issue where Visual Studio can not delete the file, I have seen this before with build errors, and sometimes if you have multiple projects that are referencing the same assembly. Your best bet there is try and track down the lock, and then you can either kill the lock, or restart Visual Studio.

I typically use Process Explorer (From SysInternals) to simply remove the handle on the file. (NOTE: this is NOT a "great" idea, but it works....)