{TuToRiAl} How To Verify If Your App. Was Ran As Administrator {TuToRiAl}

[Resistance]

Hello there. Today I shall be teaching you how to verify if your application had been ran as an administrator with administrator privileges all in a few easy lines of code.

So allow me to demonstrate:

Get Your Project Ready.

Then make a label named Status

Then have a button.

Double click the button and use this code:

Code:

Public Class Form1
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
        If My.User.IsInRole(ApplicationServices.BuiltInRole.Administrator) Then
            Status.Text = "Yes, I am the big boss."
        Else
            Status.Text = "No, maybe next time."
        End If
    End Sub
End Class

Here is a little animation for you guys below to show some results:


Enjoy and don't forget to say thanks if this helps.

[thanasis2028]

Nice example! Could be useful in things like auto-updating.

Can I ask sth irrelevant? How do you create the animation?

[AceInfinity]

Nice example! Could be useful in things like auto-updating.

Can I ask sth irrelevant? How do you create the animation?

Camtasia studio, output as gif instead of movie.

[Resistance]

Camtasia studio, output as gif instead of movie.

I already sent him a private message Infinity. Right now I am going to make a tutorial on that whole process and post the thread here. I believe people will find it somewhat helpful.

[AceInfinity]

I already sent him a private message Infinity. Right now I am going to make a tutorial on that whole process and post the thread here. I believe people will find it somewhat helpful.

I'd rather just make videos, but I know of other people that use gifs instead like you have. And you never know, maybe I posted it before you sent him the private message lol. You didn't notice until today that I gave him a method of making the gif as well.

[Resistance]

I'd rather just make videos, but I know of other people that use gifs instead like you have. And you never know, maybe I posted it before you sent him the private message lol. You didn't notice until today that I gave him a method of making the gif as well.

Listen, the second I got the email notification I started hitting him up a PM. Impossible you beat me to it no lie.

[AceInfinity]

Listen, the second I got the email notification I started hitting him up a PM. Impossible you beat me to it no lie.

I don't know, i'm pretty fast with responses lol But if you did it the within the first 10 minutes of that comment, then you beat me. I don't like using that personally because it's not as high quality as a video, and you can't have control over what part of the 'animation' you view with a gif.

Back on topic though, this would be useful for a few things i've noticed.

[.edit]

Wow, I didn't even know you could do this.
Thanks a lot, definitely adding some 'Run as admin.' screens

[+devilpsn]

Wow, I didn't even know you could do this.
Thanks a lot, definitely adding some 'Run as admin.' screens

ofc we could do this, Thanks O.P. for making this...

[SaNƹ]

I've never tried this before. I'll be trying this out pretty soon. Thanks for sharing it.