LV exe run as admin mode

[spsimona]

What if you need to run exe as admin mode?

Currently Build Specifications is not enought for doing it.

Here you are what you need to do:

1. Built the executable

2. Install mt.exe (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=8279)
3. Opened cmd as adminstrator and ran mt.exe -inputresource:"Application directory\application.exe" -out:application.manifest
4. Opened application.manifest and changed input="asInvoker" to "requireAdministrator".
5. Saved application.manifest
6. ran mt.exe -manifest:application.manifest -outputresource:"Application directory\application.exe";#1

Is it an effective method?

It would be better the following:

1. Create Manifest

2. Easy modification in My Application Properties

Hope it helps to do a more effective LabVIEW!

Álvaro

[GuenterMueller]

Nice idea. And for the typical use case that you have outlined here: Add the option "Add manifest to run as Administrator". Just in case the user/application has no further interest in maintaining a manifest.

[ericthemantis]

Yeah! Adding a option to "Run only as administrator" would be really helpful! Doing the mt.exe manifest edits is a little time consuming.

[AristosQueue (NI)]

Isn't that pretty much the same steps you'd have to do to sign as an administrator for any other compiler?

As far as I can tell, using the MT tool is required even if you use VisualStudio, Microsoft's own dev environment. Maybe I've missed a feature in a recent version of VS, but it seems that is generally the way to do it.

I don't think LV should be getting into OS specific areas like this. I'm doubly suspicious of us doing so when the OS vendor doesn't.  This seems to me like a hazard, especially if the process differs across different versions of Windows.

I'd need to be convinced.

[Nausikaa]

I think it's a must have supposed to be included nativelly in Labview.

Juan Manuel Rovira

[RavensFan]

Juan,  If you think this is a must, then don't just leave a comment, be sure to click on the Kudos button above to register your vote!

[AristosQueue (NI)]

Juan: Please explain why you believe this to be a "must have". I explained above my reasoning against it.

[ToeCutter]

Surely the whole point of LV is to do things in an easier and less time-consuming manner than e.g. Visual Studio?

On that basis I give a Kudos. That said, I think Aristos raises some points of merit which would need to be considered.

[Cepera]

Here's another way to run an EXE in admin mode: if you have LV TouchPanel module installed, you can get a manifest from the following folder: "C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2015\examples\TouchPanel\Windows Embedded Enabling Features\resource" (adjust for your version). The manifest name is vista.adminUser.manifest. Add it to your  project. The rest is the same - check "Embed manifest file". Verified on Windows 7.