Nearly every day someone asks me about windows manifest files, I'm surprised how little some devs know about the platform they develop on

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Nearly every day someone asks me about windows manifest files, I'm surprised how little some devs know about the platform they develop on
https://www.finalbuilder.com/resources/blogs/windows-manifest-files

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  1. Fabio VITALEJune 6, 2018 at 11:46 PM

    This site can’t be reached
    www.finalbuilder.com refused to connect.

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  2. Vincent ParrettJune 6, 2018 at 11:49 PM

    Fabio VITALE Hmm.. not sure why, it's working for me, and the monitoring service (monitis.com) is showing it as reachable from multiple locations.

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  3. 丽丽乌克June 7, 2018 at 12:26 AM

    But no DLL manifest support :(

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  4. Uwe RaabeJune 7, 2018 at 12:39 AM

    Fabio VITALE No problems from here either.

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  5. Friedrich WestermannJune 7, 2018 at 1:28 AM

    丽丽乌克 A Manifest is for a process not parts of the process. You can not mix different Manifest's in a process, that would be a nightmare

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  6. 丽丽乌克June 7, 2018 at 11:11 PM

    Friedrich Westermann DLL can use independent manifest. For example, Excel COM Add-In developed by .Net can uses new common control version by activate DLL manifest, instead of following host app. But add ins written by Delphi always uses Win2000 style. I reported to QC here: https://quality.embarcadero.com/browse/RSP-19997

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  7. Brian FordJune 8, 2018 at 7:40 AM

    I just spent a while this morning trying to debug a manifest resource issue, by not fully understanding the interaction with finalbuilder. I had a RC file included in my project which added several icons into the app/exe; and I was using the Manifest option in finalbuilder to add a manifest. When I had "regenerate resource" enabled in finalbuilder, all my icons disappeared, and when I didn't have it turned on my manifest did not get included.. What I ended up doing is just manually adding the manifest as a line into my RC file instead of using the option in finalbuilder. I guess I was expecting finalbuilder to merge the manifest in with my other icons in my RC/RES.. In hindsight it all makes sense, but it did take me half a hour to figure out what was happening.

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  8. Uwe RaabeJune 8, 2018 at 7:50 AM

    Brian Ford Why not give your RC file another name? I have plenty of applications with several RC files each. None of them interferes with that FinalBuilder option.

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