Launch IISExpress with Admin permissions in C#

Question

I need to check if IISexpress is already running in the system or not.. If not then I need to start IISExpress with Admin permissions.

To achieve this I am using the following code

var processes = Process.GetProcessesByName(
                        settings.Default.IISExpressProcessName).ToList();
if (processes.Count != 0) return;
var pass = new SecureString();
foreach (char chr in settings.Default.Password)
{
    pass.AppendChar(chr);
}

var iisExpress = Environment.ExpandEnvironmentVariables(
                         settings.Default.IISExpressExecutableFilePath);
Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo
{
    FileName = iisExpress,
    UseShellExecute = false,
    CreateNoWindow = true,
    Verb = "runas",
    //UserName =settings.Default.UserName,
    //Password = pass, 
    Arguments = settings.Default.IISExpressArguments
});

The issue here is that it does not start IISExpress in admin mode.

Can any one help me here?

Answer 1

Just change your code little bit to

Process process = Process.Start(new ProcessStartInfo()
  {
  FileName = IIS_EXPRESS,
  Arguments = arguments.ToString(),
  RedirectStandardOutput = true,
  UseShellExecute = true,
  CreateNoWindow = true,
  Verb = "runas"
  });

this shall do the trick