Question

I’m learning about opening and saving files with C# and it seems that vista won’t let my program save to a file on the root of C:\ , unless I run it in administrator mode.

Any ideas how to allow my program to play around with whatever files it wants?

Thanks!

private string name;

private void open_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
    {
        name = openFileDialog1.FileName;
        textBox1.Clear();
        textBox1.Text = File.ReadAllText(name);
        textBox2.Text = name;
    }
}

private void save_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    File.WriteAllText(name, textBox1.Text);
}

Answer 1

To make your program start with administrator rights, you have to change the manifest. This can be done by Add New Item -> General -> Application Manifest File. Open the manifest and set “requestedExecutionLevel” to “requireAdministrator”. When this is done, open the project settings and on the ‘Application’ tab choose your new manifest.