Comments on: Request UAC Elevation for .net Application (Managed Code)

By: Guido

Guido — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:42:00 +0000

Excellent!!! Thanks!

By: Jitterjames

Jitterjames — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 22:32:00 +0000

this is very nice, thanks! I have a bit of a variation that I’m not sure how to deal with. I have a portable application. It runs fine most of the time, but if the user decides to install it to c:program filessomesubfolder it will require UAC, because it writes to folders that are subfolders of the application. I would like to require UAC elevation only if it is needed.

The very first block of code that you showed on your tutorial using System.Security.Principal; is great in that it allows me to at least check if there will be an issue when the user launches. Hopefully I can check the application path, and if they are considered administrator. If they are not admin and they are running in program files, then at least I can offer a warning before the program crashes.

Of course the ideal would be to only ask for UAC only if they are running in a restricted area. If I make UAC a requirement for everyone, people will complain and ask “why?”… and “can you make it run without elevation?” I suppose I could create a launcher app that calls different .exes depending on the folder but that seems much less elegant, and a bit of a pita for everyone.

By: Error report after user closes Revit « robolife

Error report after user closes Revit « robolife — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:49:46 +0000

[...] If for some reason you wan to keep your file in these directories, you can try with UAC elevation. [...]

By: Vasista84

Vasista84 — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:39:00 +0000

sooooper…

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 09:21:00 +0000

This is even easier in Visual Studio 2010. go to Project->Add New Item. Select “Application Manifest File”. When the new file opens, there’s already comments in it as to how to ask for admin elevation, and it automatically gets embedded when tou build too.

By: Nico Pretorius

Nico Pretorius — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:20:17 +0000

Thank you so much. Really helpful. Very easy tutorial on making application UAC compliant.

Regards,

By: Marius Filip

Marius Filip — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:05:03 +0000

Good to know. Is there a way to do this directly from within Visual Studio (but not via the mt.exe utility and a post-build event)?

By: Catox

Catox — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:05:07 +0000

thanks a lot, this solved the problem for me

By: Aneef

Aneef — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:22:40 +0000

Hi Ravikumar,

you need to embed the manifest to get the UAC work. you cant do with app.config i guess.

If you disable UAC in control panel,it wouldn’t prompt for UAC. that’s how all applications work, for example when you access your registry when UAC disabled, you don’t get the UAC prompt right ?

hope it helps

By: Aneef

Aneef — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:22:00 +0000

Hi Ravikumar,

you need to embed the manifest to get the UAC work. you cant do with app.config i guess.

hope it helps