Steven Giesel 12/7/2022

Check for elevated rights in .NET 8

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This article details the introduction of the Environment.IsPrivilegedProcess API in .NET 8, a simple, cross-platform method to check if a process is running with elevated administrator privileges. It notes the current lack of APIs to grant or drop these rights and mentions future proposals for such functionality.

Check for elevated rights in .NET 8

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