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Windows Operating Systems: Add XP styles to your Clarion application
2002-11-24 -- Benjamin Dell
 
Newsgroups: softvelocity.products.c55ee The easiest way to add XP styles to your applications: On Microsoft® Windows® XP, manifest files enable administrators and applications to manage the sharing of side-by-side assembly versions by applications after deployment. To support visual styles, create a manifest resource to your exe or dll. You must create the manifest into the same folder as the application's executable file or DLL file. Below is a sample copy of a manifest file. The rules are: (for those without MSDN) 1. The manifest file must be the same as the exe or dll file name WITH the extension, WITH ".manifest" added. ie myfile.dll will have the manifest file myfile.dll.manifest 2. The manifest file must reside in the same directory as the application/dll 3. All the XXX in the example below can be replaced with your own information. Note : name="XXX.XXX.XXX" uniquely names the assembly. Use the following format for the name: Organization.Division.Name. For example Microsoft.Windows.mysampleApp. This is Required. 4. You can send me email if you get stuck, but this is purely on a as-I-get-time basis that I will answer. EXAMPLE MANIFEST FILE <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> <assemblyIdentity version="1.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="X86" name="XXX.XXX.XXX" type="win32" /> <description>XXX</description> <dependency> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" version="6.0.0.0" processorArchitecture="X86" publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df" language="*" /> </dependentAssembly> </dependency> </assembly> Kind Regards Benjamin Dell bdl@riebens.co.za www.riebens.co.za


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