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Sep 27th, 2023 at 10:29pm
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Hello; wanted to try this out from Visual Studio but stuck as its asking for administrator permissions. Any reason why this is required? I tried Arduino ide and Platform IO, and those seems to work just fine without any special permissions.

Is there a way to install without admin permissions?
  
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Reply #1 - Sep 27th, 2023 at 10:34pm
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Visual Studio always asks for that when it installs an extension. The installer is Microsoft's none of our code is running at that point.

Visual Micro does not need admin permissions to run.

edit. I think there is an install mode we could set to avoid install for all users but that's a problem for schools etc. They don't want individual users installing. You can download the vsix (extension) and run the microsoft vsixinstaller with non admin flag set but it's not worth the hassle. A visix is simply a zip, it's the microsoft installer than is the program and that decides where to put our files. It is then Visual Studio that can load the files into its own environment when it needs to. The Microsoft gallery performs validation when extensions are uploaded to it. It's all safe and well used.
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Reply #2 - Sep 27th, 2023 at 10:42pm
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Hello Tim, I am not sure if this is correct. I have github copilot and it does not ask for any permissions for install. To be sure, I just uninstalled and installed it, and it installed fine without asking any permission.
  
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Reply #3 - Sep 27th, 2023 at 10:46pm
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Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Sep 27th, 2023 at 10:34pm:
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edit. I think there is an install mode we could set to avoid install for all users but that's a problem for schools etc. They don't want individual users installing. You can download the vsix (extension) and run the microsoft vsixinstaller with non admin flag set but it's not worth the hassle. A visix is simply a zip, it's the microsoft installer than is the program and that decides where to put our files. It is then Visual Studio that can load the files into its own environment when it needs to. The Microsoft gallery performs validation when extensions are uploaded to it. It's all safe and well used.


lol, I think I have the opposite problem. Hard to get admin permission to install stuff as folks are pretty suspicious of apps that require admin permission. 

Do you think I can manually install this if its just a zip?
  
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Reply #4 - Sep 27th, 2023 at 11:05pm
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You can just open the zip and edit the text file called extension.vsixmanifest

Change AllUsers to false

<Installation InstalledByMsi="false" AllUsers="false">
  
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Reply #5 - Sep 27th, 2023 at 11:16pm
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btw: To install the vsix you simply double click it or if that fails right click "Open With>Visual Studio Version Selector".
  
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Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Sep 27th, 2023 at 11:05pm:
You can just open the zip and edit the text file called extension.vsixmanifest

Change AllUsers to false

<Installation InstalledByMsi="false" AllUsers="false">


Sorry but no luck. I updated as suggested in the archive vsix file, but still getting prompted. Tried also "VSIXInstaller.exe Visual.Micro.Arduino.Studio_2023_0915_2200.vsix" in VS Command prompt but same result
  
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Reply #7 - Sep 27th, 2023 at 11:31pm
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Tim@Visual Micro wrote on Sep 27th, 2023 at 11:16pm:
btw: To install the vsix you simply double click it or if that fails right click "Open With>Visual Studio Version Selector".

Yep; was trying like this and also VSIXInstaller.exe but all provide same results
  
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Reply #8 - Sep 27th, 2023 at 11:34pm
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Wondering if I do not have below and VS trying to install it? (or maybe some other dependencies?

<Prerequisite Id="Microsoft.VisualStudio.Workload.NativeCrossPlat" Version="[17.0,18.0)" DisplayName="Linux and embedded development with C++" />
  
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Reply #9 - Sep 27th, 2023 at 11:47pm
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Yes I guess so if it needs to install the tools. You can install them yourself in the IDE Tools>Get Tools>Linux and Embedded Workload.

In all cases, when you are prompt for admin rights, it is Microsoft software that is asking for permission. This is because Visual Micro is not an app/exe, it is just an extension loaded into VS by Microsoft. It's not our code (or any thrid party code) that is attempting to execute.
  
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Reply #10 - Sep 28th, 2023 at 12:07am
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Yes, that was it Smiley
1. I installed "Linux and embedded development with C++" in workloads (need admin permission for this)
2. Downloaded VSIX, updated file extension.vsixmanifest, with AllUsers="false"
3. Double click and installed without Administrator permission anymore.

Appreciate your help with this Tim!


  
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Reply #11 - Sep 28th, 2023 at 1:10am
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Great and it was a useful reminder thanks. We will add it to the docs.
  
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