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Asked: 2026-05-15T11:01:20+00:00

I’m running Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 7 64-bit. I’m logged in as administrator, and I’m running

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I’m running Visual Studio 2008 on Windows 7 64-bit. I’m logged in as administrator, and I’m running it as administrator, but the program I’m working on fails with access denied when I call a restricted API. If run the program from Explorer with “Run as Administrator” it works.

I was under the belief that Visual Studio 2008 debugs programs with whatever rights Visual Studio 2008 itself is running with. As it stands I can’t debug my application due to this, and I’m at a loss as to what’s going on.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I found the answer. It turns out that it is, in fact, a manifest issue: by default if you have a manifest you need to set the appropriate administrator privilege.

    The default is asInvoker, but that doesn’t work if you need elevated privileges; you instead have to set it to requireAdministrator in the manifest properties.

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