Question

I have a visual studio setup and deployment project. I’ve added a .cmd script in it. The script would need administrator privileges to run. When user clicks on the setup.exe, UAC prompts the user for Admin permissions. So I assumed that all processes created and called within setup.exe will run in admin capacity. So I made the setup call my console application which contains the following code.

ProcessStartInfo p1 = new ProcessStartInfo(); p1.UseShellExecute = true; p1.Verb = 'runas'; p1.FileName = 'cmd.exe'; Process.Start(p1); 

So it should’ve worked as it’s run under administrator space.

I want to run cmd.exe through c# process class as an administrator.I’m running windows vista.

I tried didn’t work! What can I do?

Answer 1

Try executing the runas command:

...  using System.Diagnostics;  ...  string UserName = 'user name goes here'; ProcessStartInfo p1 = new ProcessStartInfo();   p1.FileName = 'runas';   p1.Arguments = String.Format('/env /u:{0} cmd', UserName); Process.Start(p1);  ... 

(And I don’t think you need an explicit UseShellExecute)