How to run application as administrator in debug with Visual Studio?

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I have a c# application where I have to have read/write access to the root of the C drive. I realize I can compile the code and run the executable as administrator and it works. But I need to debug it and I am unsure as to how one would start the app within Visual Studio.

I have tried adding:

<requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="true" />

to my manifest but I still get access denied error.

Here is the line of code that fails:

MemoryMappedFile mmf = MemoryMappedFile.CreateFromFile(@"c:\somemapnamefile.data", System.IO.FileMode.OpenOrCreate, "somemapname", 1000);

For now I have a work around but I'd like to know for the future.

visual-studio c#
6 Answers

Just run visual studio itself as an administrator. Any program you debug from there will also be run as an administrator.

user_11231230

You can also set this administrator option automatically:

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user_24938870

To answer the question in your title, you can just select Run as Administrator from the context menu when starting VS.

user_28795940

Now the checked answer will not working.

You should find an option for this in project properties Linker -> Manifest File -> UAC Execution Level. Set this to requireAdminstrator.

This will cause the default generated manifest to include the requestedExecutionlevel that you need, so that your users will be prompted automatically to elevate their privileges if they are not already elevated.

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