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Icetips Utilities Documentation
11/20/2015 Global Extension Template: Add Vista/Win7 Manifest to application |
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This template adds a Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8.0, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 compatible manifest to your application. This template should be used with all software that may be used on Vista or later computers with User Access Control (UAC) enabled. For more information about UAC please see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511445.aspx.
| Description | Description of the program. This is put into the <description> tag in the manifest file. |
| Requested Privileges | This can be one of 3 options: asInvoker, highestAvailable or requireAdministrator. For more information about each of those options please see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb756929.aspx |
| App... uiAccess | Normally this checkbox should not be checked. According to MSDN, this setting should only be used for user interface Assistive Technology applications. |
| Enable Windows compat... | This enables Windows compatibility settings for any version of Windows. Currently it defaults to TRUE. Before November 20, 2015 this defaulted to FALSE. |
| Supported OS | You can include compatibility setting for any Windows version from Vista onward. If your software will be used on a mix of operating systems, check all that apply. By default they are all set to TRUE. For more information about compatibility mode, please see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd371711%28VS.85%29.aspx. |
The manifest is automatically added to your project. Once you have added the template and generated your project, the manifest will show up in your project in Solution Explorer as shown below.
Template and help updated on November 20, 2015