Adding manifest information to a Visual C++ project

Question

I'm writing a C++ program that has to run as administrator. I gather the way to arrange this is to add a note to that effect to a manifest file that will be linked into the executable. How do you do this?

In C# you can create a manifest with Add New Item, but that doesn't seem to apply to C++.

Project Properties/Linker has a section on manifests, but this seems to discuss automatically generating a manifest each time the program is compiled, rather than generating a manifest once that can be then edited. However, even though Generate Manifest has a value of Yes, no manifest file appears in the project directory tree after a build.

What am I missing?

Answer 1

1. Project -> Properties
2. Linker -> Manifest File
3. UAC Execution Level : requireAdministrator

NOTE: The manifest will be embedded into EXE file itself, as a resource. You don't need to edit it.