Conditionally run tests that require admin privs

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There are three tests now that fail due to access denied if you run them other 
than as admin.

Is there any way to:

1) Test for admin privs before running the test?
OR
2) Catch the access denied exception and issue a warning rather than a failure?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by arien.ma...@gmail.com on 2 Sep 2010 at 5:58

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I think:

SecurityManager.IsGranted(new StorePermission(StorePermissionFlags.CreateStore))

would do it. I'll experiment, assigning to myself.

Original comment by arien.ma...@gmail.com on 2 Sep 2010 at 7:32

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OK, that doesn't do it. I'm not sure the required security permission. The 
following code does make the error go away, but is sufficiently hinky that I'm 
not comfortable putting it in.


            try
            {
                AgentTester.EnsureStandardMachineStores();
            }
            catch (CryptographicException e)
            {
                if (e.Message.Trim() == "Access is denied.")
                {
                    // Don't have admin privs
                }
                else
                {
                    throw;
                }
            }


This post: 
http://www.ademiller.com/blogs/tech/2009/09/conditional-acceptance-tests-with-xu
nit-net/

Describes a method to conditionally not run tests, but I'm not an xunit expert 
and xunit itself is so poorly documented that I'm not sure how to put it into 
practice...

Original comment by arien.ma...@gmail.com on 2 Sep 2010 at 7:59

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There are a number of good blogs out on xUnit - one of the best guys is located 
here

http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2008/01/introduction-to-xunit.html
http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2008/01/introduction-to-xunitnet-extensions.html
http://blog.benhall.me.uk/2008/01/creating-your-own-xunit-extension.html

I'll take a look at it. Also, there are samples that can be downloaded with the 
xunit installer (I did not include those in the external\xunit which could be 
beneficial in learning as well). If anything, I found that it is as least as 
well documented as NUnit and other test frameworks, but maybe I'm biased or 
indifferent ;)

Original comment by jtheisen...@gmail.com on 3 Sep 2010 at 4:23