Stuck with Visual Studio 6 (or older) but want your application
to have that fancy Windows XP Look and Feel when run ? This can easily be done by
adding a manifest file in the same directory as the program, but that means
you have one more file to take care of while distribute your application.
This is where "Insert Manifest" comes to play. It's a very simple
command line program which adds a manifest file to an application executable as
resource.
The usage is pretty straight forward:
InsManifest <path_to_exe_file> <path_to_manifest_file>
Of course you'll have to create your manifest file before using the program
but that's a very easy task. You can simply modify the following template manifest:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0"> <assemblyIdentity processorArchitecture="x86" version="5.1.0.0" type="win32" name="YourExeName.Exe"/> <description> Your application name goes here </description> <dependency> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity type="win32" name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" version="6.0.0.0" publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df" language="*" processorArchitecture="x86"/> </dependentAssembly> </dependency> </assembly>
InjectManifest
Version: | 1.0 |
License: | GPL |
OS: | Windows |
Development Tools: | Microsoft Visual Studio 6 |
Last Update: | September 2nd, 2005 |
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Sample manifest |