Visual Studio 2008 / manifest

[greekman123]

Hi,

I have an application that needs to be run as administrator. The server it will be run on is Windows 2008 r2. Normally, I could right click the shortcut and choose run as administrator. I understand that with .NET apps I need to use a a manifest...

Which leads to my problem. I'm trying to add a manifest to my application. I've tried right clicking my solution and the project, but that doesn't show as an item. I'm using visual studio 2008 pro. Any ideas?

Thanks.

[greekman123]

Ok, solved the issue.

Went into the Project Properties page.

Under The application tab, I chose 'View Uac Settings'
This brings up a file app.manifest (I think this is the manifest?) Anyway, it has this:

  <requestedPrivileges xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
        <!-- UAC Manifest Options
            If you want to change the Windows User Account Control level replace the 
            requestedExecutionLevel node with one of the following.

        <requestedExecutionLevel  level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false" />
        <requestedExecutionLevel  level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />
        <requestedExecutionLevel  level="highestAvailable" uiAccess="false" />

            If you want to utilize File and Registry Virtualization for backward 
            compatibility then delete the requestedExecutionLevel node.
        -->
        <requestedExecutionLevel  level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />
      </requestedPrivileges>

I just cut and pasted:

    <requestedExecutionLevel  level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />
      </requestedPrivileges>

<requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />
</requestedPrivileges>

An it works. Thanks for looking.