December 17, 2006

Want to know how to make your apps play nice with Vista's UAC?

MSDN Magazine has an EXCELLENT article on teaching your apps to play nicely with Windows Vista User Account Control (UAC).

The Table of Contents for the article can do a pretty good just of quickly showing you why its so interesting:

  • Active at Logon
  • Creating a Filtered Token
  • Designing Apps to Run with the Filtered Token
  • Designing Apps that Require Administrator Privileges
  • Privileges During Installation
  • Marking the Privileges for an MSI
  • Running Your App with Administrator Privileges
  • Marking Required Privileges Using an Application Manifest
  • Marking a COM Object
  • Alerting Users to Elevated Privileges
  • Communicating between Processes in Different Security Contexts
  • Low Rights Internet Explorer
  • Securing a Windows Service in Windows Vista
  • Common Application Compatibility Issues
  • Problems During Installation
  • Typical Runtime Application Issues

Lots of kewl stuff here. Happy reading!

Posted by SilverStr at December 17, 2006 11:12 PM | TrackBack
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