Check for administrator privileges in C#

Question

I want to know if a program is running as administrator.

The user doesn't have to be administrator. I only want to know if my application has rights to edit some secured files that are editable when running as Administrator.

Answer 1

This will return a bool valid

using System.Security.Principal;

bool isElevated;
using (WindowsIdentity identity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent())
{
    WindowsPrincipal principal = new WindowsPrincipal(identity);
    isElevated = principal.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator);
}