Visual Studio Run as administrator shortcut

Question

how do I create a shortcut that runs Visual Studio with Administrator rights?

Actually I have to navigate to the Visual Studio start menu folder, click on the icon with

Answer 1

What I was looking for was a way of running Visual Studio Solution files (.sln) as Administrator. I just found a pretty good way of doing this...

Place this content inside a file named RunAsAdministrator.reg:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VisualStudio.Launcher.sln\Shell\runas\Command]
@="\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Common Files\\Microsoft Shared\\MSEnv\\VSLauncher.exe\" \"%1\""

Double click the file to execute it.

Now, when you right click a file you'll have the option of running it as Adminstrator like this:

Here's the full story by the AWESOME David Ebbo: Open your solution files as admin