Visual Studio 2013 debug as administrator

Question

I am writing a program in c# that requires it to be run as administrator only when certain actions are taken.

When the user clicks a button it checks if the application is running as an administrator and if it is not than it restarts the application as an administrator.

I don't want it to require admin access all the time since most of the application can be used without it.

The problem I am having is when I try to debug the application in VS2013 and click a button that requires admin access it restarts the program and Visual Studio stops debugging it.

Is there a setting or a debug configuration that will allow VS to always start debugging as administrator?

do you mean that you always want to run the program as administrator when debugging from visual studio? If so, just run Visual Studio as administrator — default, Nov 24 '14 at 17:05
Have you tried opening visual studio'run as administrator'??? — Ashwath, Nov 24 '14 at 17:06
See [this](http://stackoverflow.com/q/20404231/238902) for reference — default, Nov 24 '14 at 17:07
You can also call [Debugger.Launch](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.debugger.launch%28v=vs.110%29.aspx) (for instance in your Debug configuration) to attach a debugger to the program. However, I'm not 100% sure what your intentions are with your question.. — default, Nov 24 '14 at 17:09

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 24 '14 at 17:13

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Try this solution apply setting for shortcut (away run with administrator)

right click icon visual studio -> properties -> (Tab) Compatibility -> (Group) Setting -> (check) Run this program as an administrator -> Apply -> OK.

answered Nov 24 '14 at 17:13

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I didn't know that running VS as administrator would also run the debugger as administrator. Thanks – Tony Brix Nov 24 '14 at 18:16

Visual Studio 2013 debug as administrator

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