How to give my C# app administrative rights? manifest file

There’s a “trustinfo” dangling in your snippet. Make it look like this: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?> <asmv1:assembly manifestVersion=”1.0″ xmlns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1″ xmlns:asmv1=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1″ xmlns:asmv2=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2″ xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance”> <assemblyIdentity version=”1.0.0.0″ name=”MyApplication.app”/> <trustInfo xmlns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2″> <security> <requestedPrivileges xmlns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3″> <requestedExecutionLevel level=”requireAdministrator” uiAccess=”false” /> </requestedPrivileges> </security> </trustInfo> </asmv1:assembly>