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For versions that support the dpiAwareness element, the dpiAwareness overrides the dpiAware element. The dpiAwareness element can contain a single item or a list of comma-separated items. In the latter case, the first leftmost item in the list recognized by the operating system is used. In this way, you can specify different behaviors supported in future Windows operating system versions.

The following table describes the behavior that results based upon the presence of the dpiAwareness element and the text that it contains in its leftmost recognized item. Specifies whether GDI scaling is enabled. The minimum version of the operating system that supports the gdiScaling element is Windows 10 version The GDI graphics device interface framework can apply DPI scaling to primitives and text on a per-monitor basis without updates to the application itself.

This can be useful for GDI applications no longer being actively updated. Non-vector graphics such as bitmaps, icons, or toolbars cannot be scaled by this element. In addition, graphics and text appearing within bitmaps dynamically constructed by applications also cannot be scaled by this element.

Specifies whether high-resolution-scrolling aware is enabled. This element is supported in Windows 10, version , and later. For more information, see this article. Specifies whether printer driver isolation is enabled. Printer driver isolation improves the reliability of the Windows print service by enabling printer drivers to run in processes that are separate from the process in which the print spooler runs.

Support for printer driver isolation started in Windows 7 and Windows Server R2. An app can declare printer driver isolation in its app manifest to isolate itself from the printer driver and improve its reliability. That is, the app won't crash if the printer driver has an error. Specifies whether ultra-high-resolution-scrolling aware is enabled.

Specifies the identity info of a sparse MSIX package for the current application. The msix element must be in the namespace urn:schemas-microsoft-com:msix.

It has the attributes shown in the following table. Overrides the default heap implementation for the Win32 heap APIs to use. The following is an example of an application manifest for an application named MySampleApp. The application consumes the SampleAssembly side-by-side assembly. Skip to main content.

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Privacy policy. We recommended that you embed the manifest of your application or library inside the final binary because this guarantees correct runtime behavior in most scenarios. By default, Visual Studio tries to embed the manifest when it builds a project.

For more information, see Manifest Generation in Visual Studio. However, if you build your application by using nmake, you have to make some changes to the makefile. Michael Urman Michael Urman If it was up to me i would have upgraded immediately.

However this decision is linked to the phase of our project and also the budget. However Perisisted folder is not available in Windows I have zero clue how Persisted ties into a manifest, much less whether it's for the setup or the app. What is your real question? And no time in the current project to upgrade to 10 year-old technology is, while all too common, very unfortunate for a product that's apparently trying to support Windows Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back Safety in numbers: crowdsourcing data on nefarious IP addresses. Featured on Meta. And when we delete the PBLs the resulting application PBL does not have the application icon embedded in it so the exe generated using PBC also doesn't have an icon.

Another disadvantage to this approach is that this approach takes almost 1. This approach seems to have fixed all the problems that I described above but this approach is still very new and PBAutoBuild still has some bugs to be fixed. Also, we are not yet ready to move to PB just yet. Though, thankfully, Appeon did fix it this time. A Tool that cannot even handle simple characters like this just shows that PBAutoBuild is still in very early stages and we really don't want to use it for our production builds.

Please let me know if anyone knows of any way to add manifest support to orcascript. We want to either embed a custom manifest file in the exe or use an external manifest. Subscribe via RSS. Toggle Submenu Categories Recent Tags. View Replies 0.