UAC Manifest

Because sometimes, it just has to run elevated…

< ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>

<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"
   manifestversion="1.0">
   <assemblyidentity version="1.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="X86"
      name="ASSEMBLY_NAME" type="win32"/>

      <trustinfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
      <security>
         <requestedprivileges>
            <requestedexecutionlevel level="requireAdministrator"/>
         </requestedprivileges>

      </security>
   </trustinfo>
</assembly>

Embed the above file (after setting the correct assembly info, that is) as a Win32 resource, and you’re done! Bart De Smet wrote down how to do it. Visual Studio Orcas can do it OOB.