As most of you guys probably know, on Windows Vista and Windows 7 if you don't run an application as administrator you can run in to issues with your app crashing or not performing like it should.

This will make your app request admin privileges on startup so that you can avoid those problems, and the user doesn't have to right-click and run as admin.

Ignore that I'm using Party Buffalo as this example, since I already had it open and didn't feel like making a new project.

First, go to Project>Add New Item...

From there, you should be greeted with the window with your options and whatnot. Select "Application Manifest File"

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Once it's been added to the project, right-click it and open.

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The grayed line is what we need to change. Where it says:



That needs to be changed to:



Next, right-click on the project in the Solution Explorer and choose Properties (or click on the Properties menu at the top and choose YourProjectName Properties...)

In the "Application" tab there should be a "Manifest" combobox right under the Icon one. Click on it, and select the app manifest that we just created (should be named app.manifest by default)

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And there you go! When the app is run on a computer with UAC enabled, it should now come up with the UAC window like this:

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(not my image -- too lazy to enable UAC, restart, etc.)