Open file in current instance of Visual Studio when running under different credentials

Question

I work on a project which is hosted in IIS, and therefore in order to debug this site I have to run Visual Studio as an administrator.

The problem is, when opening a file in Windows Explorer, I would like to open it in the current instance of Visual Studio (or a new instance if that is not the case).

I've had partial success, using a batch file with the following contents:

cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE" devenv /Edit %1

However, this opens Visual Studio as the currently logged-in user, and NOT as Administrator (so when I have an instance already open as administrator it opens a new instance anyway).

So the question is; how can I have the file open in the current instance, as Administrator?

Answer 1

1. Shift+right-click on the file in Explorer
2. Press 'a' on the popup menu (selects Copy As Path)
3. Switch to Visual Studio
4. Press Ctrl+O then Ctrl+V then Enter

You could probably make some kind of AutoHotkey script to automate it, depending on how often you need to do this.