On Nov 21, 2007 5:16 AM, Jeremy O'Donoghue
Not just Windows Vista. Applications and DLLs compiled with Visual Studio 2005 (Express or full version) seem to need it to run on XP as well.
I believe the dependency here is version 8 of the Visual C RTL. Applications that don't touch the RTL don't need to worry about it.
Basically it contains a list of *exactly* which libraries were used to link the application, as well as permissions. It's alleged to eliminate DLL hell (which it does by replacing it with Manifest hell).
Since, at least with Microsoft's tools, the manifest is normally included in the executable image instead of being a separate file, I'm not sure how they could become confused and/or out of sync, as DLLs could become. /g -- The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.