Professional Visual Basic 2012 and .NET 4.5 Programming

Defining Your Application UAC Settings

By default in Visual Studio, your application settings include information related to UAC. It is possible to create your application so that it ships with certain permissions. Within your application manifest you'll find the section requestedPrivileges. This section is where the requested UAC execution level for your application is defined. Note that these settings are applicable to Windows Store applications that run on Windows RT.

To get to your application manifest, right-click on your project in Solution Explorer and select Properties. In the Properties pane, select the Application tab and there you'll find a button labeled View Windows Settings. Selecting this button will open your application manifest (app.manifest) XML file in the editor window. Within the XML, you'll find the requestedPrivileges node, a copy of which is shown in the code block that is part of Listing 18.1.

Listing 18.1 : Manifest Level Rights—My Project\app.manifest

 <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" /> Specifying requestedExecutionLevel node will disable file and registry virtualization. ...