Why run Visual Studio as “Run as Administrator”?

Question

What is the difference between using Visual Studio 2012 \"Run as Administrator\" mode and otherwise? Why do developers prefer using VS in administrator mode? What are the ad

Answer 1

Windows Vista introduced User Account Control which means that you are running all programs as a standard user even if you are an admin. There are certain things that you in VS that requires you to be running as an admin, not a standard user. For example running Windows Azure emulators, asp.net dev server, etc.

You can run VS as a standard user but sooner or later you will run into issues.