It would be nice if on a project configuration setting if we could have a setting called "Run tests as Administrator" it could default to false. Then we can set it to true when needed.

This is a huge issue when developing on a box with UAC enabled. If you ask why in the heck would you develop on a box that has UAC enabled, the reason is we didn't used to but tons of elevation bugs stunk through that wouldn't have if the developers environments where UAC enabled. It also allows us to feel the pain typical users would feel using are applications as we dog food them.

So we as a practice run Visual Studio as a normal user and for everything it has been great until we started getting more into unit testing and a small number of the "mocks" and "mock environments" we need require elevated rights. So we have been creating the tests and marking them as explicit or ignored with NUnit attributes.

Then once in a great while we will launch VS as an Admin and then run them.

With this feature every run would trigger an elevation prompt but we could leave the as explicit so they don't run automatically but then we wouldn't have to launch a new VS as an admin just to run these few tests. They will get run more often by the dev's with this feature.