How to run a Visual Studio on Parallels Desktop with Elevated privilages via dock icon I have a OS X Mavericks with Parallels Desktop 9 hosting Windows 8.1 on it. Windows has Visual Studio 2013 installed. 

I am working in Coherence mode. If I run Visual Studio from Start menu or some other way, it appears in OS X dock. I can choose to Keep it in dock.

But I need VS to start with Elevated (admin) privileges. The devenv.exe, which is a Visual Studio executable, doesn't have a Compatibility tab where I could check the Always run in Admin mode, which would solve my problem.

How can I have Visual Studio in dock and have it being executed with Admin right?

Thanks.
Try to launch devenv through runas.exe, there you can specify the user who you want. 
So you should make a shortcut with the following command:

runas.exe /user:admin "c:\PATHTODEVENV\devenv.exe


As I know it will ask your password, but then you can try the /savecred switch.

More info: 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8249705/how-to-run-an-app-as-run-as-administrator-from-command-prompt, and 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490994.aspx
Good Luck!