Macro to Restart Visual Studio Elevated

Kevin Dente ponders on Twitter:

This is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while, as often I’ll open a Web Application in Visual Studio configured to run under IIS and be met with the following:

Running anything elevated is easy, you just need to call ShellExecute (the .NET equivalent is System.Diagnostics.Process.Start) with the “RunAs” verb, so it’s simply a matter of starting Visual Studio’s devenv.exe passing the path to the current solution.

So here goes: copy and paste this into a Macro Module (ALT+F11) then wire up to a toolbar button as appropriate:

Sub ElevateVisualStudio()

    Dim slnPath As String = DTE.Solution.FullName
    DTE.Solution.Close(True)

    Dim startInfo As New System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo(DTE.FullName, slnPath)
    startInfo.Verb = "RUNAS"
    System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(startInfo)

    DTE.Quit()

End Sub

Works On My Machine™, etc and only tested on Visual Studio 2008.