Manifest files vista

Visual Studio does not currently embed a default manifest into managed code. For managed code, the developer would simply insert a default manifest into the target. The steps would be as follows:. Use a text editor like notepad to create a default manifest file, temp. Here is a default manifest that can be used as a sample. The command would be:. Hi, I've prepared a small script to add into post-build event. Echo "Usage: patchmanifest app. CreateObject "WScript. Shell" ;.

Exec "mt. Echo "Manifest Tool error" ; WScript. Quit 1 end if. Sleep loop. Echo "Manifest Tool error" WScript. Quit 2 end if. Quit 0. Echo "" WScript. Echo "Error:", Hex Err. Number , "-", Err. Description Err. Clear end if. Another workaround is to copy the newer version of mt. The newer mt.

Right SP1 does not fix this problem -- I came across the extra "newer" mt. It's then that I found out there were actually three mt.

It's better to copy the newer version overtop to prevent the old version from being used by accident. It seems that both v2 and v3 statements should work in Windows Vista and Windows XP if duplicate xmlns isn't specified. I have a simple manifest, does not require administrator testing at the mo and going as invoker.

Basiaclly embedding the manifest currupts the exe and foxpro first prompts for a file to run defaults to. For other os es leave the exe without the manifest. So basically you want to ship 2 executables. And let the installation install the appropriate one depending on whether or not its Vista.

I am not aware of another way to achieve elevation apart from the manifest route. But there are other ways of adding the manifest. NET you can configure your project to automatically embed a manifest after building. I suppose you could achieve that in VFP by running a script in the post-build project event. I will try that. Thanks Mathias. I was just looking into embedding a manifest into a Visual FoxPro exe. I can use ml. However the exe gets corrupted as its reported size is only 32kb while it used to be KB.

I do not understand what is happening. Were you ever able to embed an application manifest into a VFP executable. I am having the exact same problem that you describe. When I use an external manifest and set the requestedExecutionLevel to "asInvoker", it does not disable virtualization for the application.

Any help is appreciated. We have an application installer that adds an add-in with outlook. But them all of a sudden every thing started giving error. In short all the data from Vista was lost and on trying to restart the machine, it gave error that windows is corrupted please insert CD to repair it. And reported an error with a file named something like intelide. I've just been reading through this thread because we have a set of applications in which we want to disable virtualization, and, after reading the MSDN information on virtualization it became apparent that we could do so by specifying a requiredExecutionLevel value in our manifests.

We merge the manifest file which the compiler produces with a 'standard' manifest file that contains the trustInfo information in and receive the annoying authoring warning into the bargain - which I understand is meant to be fixed in SP1? However I have 2 applications, both of which because they have the same runtime dependencies have the same manifest file content In one of these two applications, Virtualization is disabled, in the other, it's enabled - this is what task manager is telling me anyway.

It looks like a bug to me - because I cannot fathom why the two applications are being treated differently given that they are using the same content although one manifest is called program1.

Anyone have any experience of this? It's the inconsistency I find most disconcerting. I can see why the statement in my previous update left you in some doubt, I'll clarify the situation.

I actually embed the merged manifest into the executable, in the runtime environment on Vista there are no external manifest files. The names I was referring to 'program1. I took your advice and picked up a copy of CFF Explorer to look at the two exe's resources it shows literally cut and pasted - so sorry about the formatting As you can see, they're identical, but with them set this way, program2 has virtualization disabled which is what I want but program1 has virtualization enabled which I don't want.

Just to re-iterate, there are no external manifest files on the Vista machine. The runas will cause a blue screen. Runas causes process elevation in Vista, not XP and In XP and , runas. However, in Vista runas either will change. That is why XP and crash. There's a way to include a manifest resource in your app without using MT at all.

This avoids the danger of VS generating an invalid one which blue-screens XP, and can be entirely automated within VS Uniquely names the application or assembly. Use the following format for the name: Organization. For example Microsoft. Identifies the language of the application or assembly. In the assemblyIdentity of an application intended for worldwide use language neutral omit the language attribute.

Specifies the processor. Valid values include x86 , amd64 , arm and arm Specifies the application or assembly version. Use the four-part version format: mmmmm. Each of the parts separated by periods can be inclusive. For more information, see Assembly Versions. A character hexadecimal string representing the last 8 bytes of the SHA-1 hash of the public key under which the application or assembly is signed.

The public key used to sign the catalog must be bits or greater. Required for all shared side-by-side assemblies. This can enable an application designed for Windows Vista to run on a later operating system. Applications that support Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8 functionality do not require separate manifests. On Windows 8. The content of the column shows the highest value found or "Windows Vista" as the default. Set the Id attribute to a 4-part version string that specifies the maximum version of Windows that the application was tested against.

For example, " A hash of the file referred to by name. A hexadecimal string of length depending on the hash algorithm. The current process is dpi unaware by default. Windows 8. Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8: The current process is system dpi aware. The current process uses the per-monitor-v2 dpi awareness context. This item will only be recognized on Windows 10 version or later. The current process is dpi unaware. Describes the publisher information. This value must match the Publisher attribute in the Identity element in your sparse package manifest.

Describes the contents of the package. This value must match the Name attribute in the Identity element in your sparse package manifest. If the assembly was strong named, embedding the manifest invalidates the hash and thus breaks the executable the latest version of mt. The solution is to re-sign with sn. Net Framework SDK :. Now wouldn't it be nice if this could be done automatically? Fortunately, it can, using build events.

Build events can be found in the project properties in Visual Studio. For C projects, it's a separate tab in the list on the left "Build Events". Set the post-build event command line to the following:. You may need to adjust the paths of mt. You will also need to modify the name of the strong name key file and manifest file. There's one thing left. If you use the latest version of mt. To prevent that, check the "Delay sign only" box on the "Signing" tab of the project settings.

Now your assembly will not actually be signed when mt. Thanks so much for this post - tried to follow a few different posts describing this process and this is the first that worked straight off the bat for me.

Not sure what went wrong before, but it's only Vista day 2 for me. I've been looking as the best way to do this and you've helped me decide. I assume VS will have better support for embedding manifests alongside signing for c apps. A strongly named application or component cannot reference a weak-named component, so strong-naming an EXE prevents the EXE from referencing weak-named DLLs that are deployed with the application.

The third option is to use a pre-build event to generate the manifest file, according to the configuration. Can you give me more details about the third option of pre-build event to generate the manifest file, according to the configuration. And how to insert the information of "trustinfo" tag in this manifest file? In the Additional Manifest Files, I have specified the name of my manifest file which contains the information of "trustinfo". It generated one manifest file, but this manifest file does not contain any information.

It does not contain my "trustinfo" information and not the "assemblyidentity" information for Debug and Release builds. Can you please specify in detail, what should be the options so that it could generate the correct manifest file and embed it? Now for Vista, I have to embed the manifest file in my project. And I have to add the section of "trustinfo" in my manifest file. Now it includes the information of assemblyidentity.

Now it automatically generating this manifest file in the debug folder and I want to embed this in my project and also want to know how to include the "trustinfo" tag in this file? Ask a question. Quick access. Search related threads.