Escalating UAC privileges in C / C++ applications using Visual Studio

To set this linker option in the Visual Studio development environment

1. Open the project’s Property Pages dialog box. For details, see How to: Open Project Property Pages.
2. Expand the Configuration Properties node.
3. Expand the Linker node.
4. Select the Manifest File property page.
5. Modify the Enable User Account Control (UAC), UAC Execution Level, and UAC Bypass UI Protection properties.

To set this linker option programmatically

• See EnableUAC, UACExecutionLevel, and UACUIAccess.

Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384691.aspx