How to create an application alway run as administrator

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Dear all,
I use visual stdio 2010 to build an application. my application have a xml file (named info.xml). But when i package it to an install package, i have a problem.

When user install my application, all file copied to c:\\programfile\\Myapp\ (Myapp is folder that my application create when it was installed). But my application can not acess file (info.xml) in this folder to read.
How can i solve this problem. I think that my application need alway to run as administrator ( win 7), but i don't know how to build an app alway run as administrator.
Thank for any help

Posted 15-Jul-11 6:20am

nguyenvanven

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skv_lviv · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-15T06:33:00

You have two choices (at least I can suggest two):

1) Add custom action to your installation package that will change file permissions to allow everyone (or some specific users) to access your file

Take a look at FileInfo.GetAccessControl and FileSecurity.AddAccessRule classes/methods

2) to always ask for administrator rights you just have to update app.manifest file with appropriate tags, see http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharpgeneral/thread/da5a8665-70da-43b0-b67d-5cfc9ff0c972[^] for more details