Solution for developing Sharepoint object model in application outside IIS

Resolution

The user running the application needs to have the following permissions and group membership set:

• The user is a server farm administrator. 
• The user has Read and Write permissions on the content database. 
• The user is a site collection administrator. 
• The user has permissions to access the Windows SharePoint Services site or the SharePoint Server 2007 site through which the code iterates.