How do i create a desktop shortcut to a vs solution to run as administrator in windows 10?

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Hi,

Occasionally, I find I encounter issues when working in Visual Studio 2015 that are fixed by running it as an Administrator.

On my Desktop (Windows 10 Pro), I have created a shortcut to Visual Studio, and I have ticked Properties | Advanced | Run As Administrator, which works fine.

I have just created a shortcut to the *.sln file for a project I am currently working on. This opens the solution in Visual Studio no problem, but I am unable to tick the same option as above to get it to run as Administrator. The option is simply greyed-out?

Does anyone know why this may be and if I can change this?

Kind wishes ~ Patrick

What I have tried:

Tried looking in the Security properties for the shortcut. I have full privileges.

Posted 8-Mar-16 22:53pm

Patrick Skelton

Updated 8-Mar-16 23:11pm

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-08T23:11:00

You can only set executables as "run as Admin", so you need to create a new shortcut, and point it at the EXE file. Add the path to the solution as a parameter to teh exe, and set the "start in" folder to the solution folder.
Then you can set the "Advanced" option to "run as Admin".
So for me:
Target:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" "D:\Documents\AA Backed Up\My Projects\SMApplications\SMApplications.sln"
Start in:
"D:\Documents\AA Backed Up\My Projects\SMApplications"