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POHow to UAC elevate a COM component with .NET
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copied!<p>I've found an <a href="http://chrison.net/UACElevationInManagedCodeStartingElevatedCOMComponents.aspx" rel="noreferrer">article</a> on how to elevate a COM object written in C++ by calling <code>CoCreateInstanceAsAdmin</code>. But what I have not been able to find or do, is a way to implement a component of my .NET (c#) application as a COM object and then call into that object to execute the tasks which need UAC elevation. MSDN documents this as the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756990.aspx" rel="noreferrer">admin COM object model</a>.</p> <p>I am aware that it is possible and quite easy to launch the application (or another app) as an administrator, to execute the tasks in a separate process (see for instance the <a href="http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2006/12/launch-elevated-and-modal-too.html" rel="noreferrer">post from Daniel Moth</a>, but what I am looking for is a way to do everything from within the same, un-elevated .NET executable. Doing so will, of course, spawn the COM object in a new process, but thanks to transparent marshalling, the caller of the .NET COM object should not be (too much) aware of it.</p> <p>Any ideas as to how I could instanciate a COM object written in C#, from a C# project, through the <code>CoCreateInstanceAsAdmin</code> API would be very helpful. So I am really interested in learning how to write a COM object in C#, which I can then invoke from C# through the COM elevation APIs.</p> <p>Never mind if the elevated COM object does not run in the same process. I just don't want to have to launch the whole application elevated; I would just like to have the COM object which will execute the code be elevated. If I could write something along the lines:</p> <pre><code>// in a dedicated assembly, marked with the following attributes: [assembly: ComVisible (true)] [assembly: Guid ("....")] public class ElevatedClass { public void X() { /* do something */ } } </code></pre> <p>and then have my main application just instanciate <code>ElevatedClass</code> through the <code>CoCreateInstanceAsAdmin</code> call. But maybe I am just dreaming.</p>

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