Admin rights for a single method

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You can add a PrincipalPermission attribute to your method to demand administrative privileges for its execution:

[PrincipalPermission(SecurityAction.Demand, Role = @"BUILTIN\Administrators")]
public void MyMethod()
{
}

This is described in more detail in the following article:

Security Principles and Local Admin Rights in C# .Net

If you are looking for a way to elevate an already existing process I doubt that this is possible as administrator privileges are given on process-level to a process upon startup (see this related question). You would have to run your application “as administrator” to get the desired behavior.

However, there are some tricks that might allow you to do what you want, but be warned that this might open up severe security risks. See the following thread in the MSDN forums:

Launching MyElevatedCom Server without prompting Administrator credentialls from Standard User

Update (from comment)

It seems that if an update requires elevation your application update is best done by a separate process (either another executable, or your application called with a command line switch). For that separate process you can request elevation as follows:

var psi = new ProcessStartInfo();
psi.FileName = "path to update.exe";
psi.Arguments = "arguments for update.exe";
psi.Verb = "runas";

var process = new Process();
process.StartInfo = psi;
process.Start();   
process.WaitForExit();

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