Thanks for the advice. I have followed the instructions for the article below but I have come across some issues with the different paths that you can take. Let me explain:

• Since I already have a DNN instance on a development server which is already configured and working on our network I would like to use that system. It has enough resources technically and it allows me (and my organization) to keep everything in one place as opposed to everyone running separate instances and having to copy code to the central location. Having said that, I have tried the .NET configuration utility but I receive the same results as before.
• With the second option you have provided you cannot compile; you can only debug. Debugging works great as provided but is there any way I can compile solutions from a central location using the advice given? I will search online myself but I was wondering if you may have known any from your experience.

Again, thanks for your time and energy.

I tried it myself.... very occasionally it works with small ASP.NET projects. In the end I gave up and ran projects from the local hard drive, there seems to be no solution here. Of course in a lot of scenarios it's far better to run of a network drive because data gets backed up to the server. In my case I had to work around it by having a batch file run every time I logged out which xcopied the solution.