Relevance of the Manifest?

[Ian Branch 127]

Hi Team,

Its not something I have ever bothered with but thought I would have a look.

What relevance/importance does the Manifest in the Project settings have for a Windows only 32bit application nominally running on either Win 7 or Win 10?

Regards & TIA,

Ian

[Fr0sT.Brutal 900]

Mostly it enables styling of controls (like D7's XPManifest component did). But you also can specify some useful options there, f.ex. require elevation on startup

[David Heffernan 2345]

It allows the system loader to take decisions at the time it starts up the process and before any code of the process executes. 

 

For instance, it allows the loader to make decisions about how to resolve dependencies (assemblies). Those decisions need to be made by the loader because implicit load time dependencies are resolved by the loader. 

 

There are many other things that are influenced by settings in the manifest. You can find out what they are by reading the documentation.