App Manifest Ignored - visual-studio-2013

Question

I am developing an app in Visual Studio 2013 on Windows 7 x64 that requires administrator privileges but it appears my manifest is being ignored:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<asmv1:assembly manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" xmlns:asmv1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" xmlns:asmv2="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" name="MyApplication.app"/>
<trustInfo xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2">
<security>
<requestedPrivileges xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3">
<!-- UAC Manifest Options
If you want to change the Windows User Account Control level replace the
requestedExecutionLevel node with one of the following.
<requestedExecutionLevel level="asInvoker" uiAccess="false" />
<requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />
<requestedExecutionLevel level="highestAvailable" uiAccess="false" />
Specifying requestedExecutionLevel node will disable file and registry virtualization.
If you want to utilize File and Registry Virtualization for backward
compatibility then delete the requestedExecutionLevel node.
-->
<requestedExecutionLevel level="requireAdministrator" uiAccess="false" />
</requestedPrivileges>
</security>
</trustInfo>
<compatibility xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1">
<application>
<!-- A list of all Windows versions that this application is designed to work with.
Windows will automatically select the most compatible environment.-->
<!-- If your application is designed to work with Windows Vista, uncomment the following supportedOS node-->
<!--<supportedOS Id="{e2011457-1546-43c5-a5fe-008deee3d3f0}"></supportedOS>-->
<!-- If your application is designed to work with Windows 7, uncomment the following supportedOS node-->
<supportedOS Id="{35138b9a-5d96-4fbd-8e2d-a2440225f93a}"/>
<!-- If your application is designed to work with Windows 8, uncomment the following supportedOS node-->
<!--<supportedOS Id="{4a2f28e3-53b9-4441-ba9c-d69d4a4a6e38}"></supportedOS>-->
<!-- If your application is designed to work with Windows 8.1, uncomment the following supportedOS node-->
<!--<supportedOS Id="{1f676c76-80e1-4239-95bb-83d0f6d0da78}"/>-->
</application>
</compatibility>
<!-- Enable themes for Windows common controls and dialogs (Windows XP and later) -->
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity
type="win32"
name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
version="6.0.0.0"
processorArchitecture="*"
publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
language="*"
/>
</dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
</asmv1:assembly>
To test my theory, I put in some invalid text to see if the parser would crash, but nothing happened. I have tried building as Any CPU, x86, and x64 with the same result. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

If you like me removed the manifest and restored it back via source control, your app has likely selected the default-settings-manifest and will ignore all further changes to your custom app.manifest file.
To resolve the problem:
Right click your project
Click properties
Find the Icons and Manifest section
Specify the app.manifest in the drop-down
Save changes