The noInherit element has no child elements. If noInherit is not used, assemblyIdentity must be the first subelement of the assembly element. The assemblyIdentity element should come immediately after the noInherit element. If noInherit is used in a manifest, it must be the first subelement of the assembly element. The use of the noInherit element requires that any dependent assemblies referenced by the application manifest have a noInherit element in their assembly manifest. Most assemblies do not work correctly using a no-inherit activation context because the assembly must be explicitly designed to manage the propagation of their own activation context. The noInherit element is optional and typically omitted. Setting this flag prevents the new object from inheriting the active context. When this flag is not set in an activation context, and the activation context is active, it is inherited by new threads in the same process, windows, window procedures, and Asynchronous Procedure Calls. Include this element in an application manifest to set the activation contexts generated from the manifest with the "no inherit" flag. The manifestVersion attribute must be set to 1.0. The assembly element has the following attributes. Child elements of the assembly must also be in this namespace, by inheritance or by tagging. The assembly element must be in the namespace "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1". Its first subelement must be a noInherit or assemblyIdentity element. The values of elements and attributes are case-insensitive, except for the value of the type attribute.Ī container element. Names of elements and attributes are case-sensitive. You can omit the field if resource ID is 1. manifest.įor example, an application manifest that refers to example.exe or example.dll would use the following file name syntax.
The name of an application manifest file is the name of the application's executable followed by. ElementĪpplication manifests should be included as a resource in the application's EXE file or DLL.įor more information, see Installing Side-by-side Assemblies.
Application manifests may also describe metadata for files that are private to the application.įor a complete listing of the XML schema, see Manifest File Schema.Īpplication manifests have the following elements and attributes. These should be the same assembly versions that were used to test the application. An application manifest is an XML file that describes and identifies the shared and private side-by-side assemblies that an application should bind to at run time.