UAC refereneces (C#, .NET)

UAC (User Account Control)

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922708

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Account_Control

How to set the UAC elevation with C# (.NET)?

1. Create a manifest file looks like below.

2. Adding the manifest to the executable.

tab BuildEvent, in the post-build,

"$(DevEnvDir)..\..\SDK\v2.0\bin\mt.exe" -manifest "$(ProjectDir)$(TargetName).exe.manifest"  –outputresource:"$(TargetDir)$(TargetFileName)";#1

You can change the paths to make a build possible.

Local User, Application Directory

The directory of a local user and an application directory is different from Windows Vista and Windows XP.

Windows Vista/Windows Server 2008: %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Team Foundation

Windows Server 2003 / Windows XP: %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application 

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955377

So, we can use environment values to get them.

Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("LOCALAPPDATA"); // Get an application data path

Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("USERPROFILE"); // Get an user directory

OS Version number

Operating system	Version number
Windows 7	6.1
Windows Server 2008 R2	6.1
Windows Server 2008	6.0
Windows Vista	6.0
Windows Server 2003 R2	5.2
Windows Server 2003	5.2
Windows XP	5.1
Windows 2000	5.0

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms724832(VS.85).aspx

Summary

http://community.bartdesmet.net/blogs/bart/archive/2006/10/28/Windows-Vista-_2D00_-Demand-UAC-elevation-for-an-application-by-adding-a-manifest-using-mt.exe.aspx

Other References

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/csharpgeneral/thread/49327bc6-571f-4c3c-9b47-c492ce91ed91/

http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2006/09/06/742187.aspx

http://blogs.msdn.com/uac/

UAC in C++, Managed. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310294