Aagh.
I installed Visual Studio 2005 on Vista Ultimate RTM. It said there were known compatibility issues. I installed the SP1 beta. It said Visual Studio should be run with elevated permissions. I set the "Run this program as an administrator" checkbox in the Compatibility tab for devenv.exe.
Now, every time I run Visual Studio, I get the "An unidentified program wants access to your computer" popup, because the SP1 devenv.exe is from an "Unidentified publisher".
Is there any Vista trick I can use to permanently trust the executable (aside from turning UAC off)
NB: the VS version number is 8.0.50727.363 (SP.050727-3600)
VS2005 SP1 on Vista RTM
-Antilles-
When ever you run a program as Administrator you will get a UAC unless you tell the TOTAL system to suppress uac prompts. You should not need to run as administrator to use Visual Studio.
Any user who wants to run an app as admin and he will get a UAC. PS the problem with Visual Studio and Vista has to do with SQL permission not the dev side.
Jay Windows Vista Beta Security Forum MGR