How can I embed .manifest into a .net class libaray

4 Oct 2005 6:49 PM

jamiec

Hi there,

I am making a class libaray which is to use interop to work with a unmanaged
COM object. What happens is that I also need to use .manifest file to control
the version of COM object to load becuase there are multiple versions of COM
objects.

example: myapp.exe.manifest
<?xml version="1.0" ......
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="..." version="1.3" ... <<== Here specify
the version of COM object to use

The problem is that I am making a class libaray not a .exe, therefore, I
need to figure out a way to embed this <dependecy..> into the class library's
assembly so that my class libaray will always load the right version of COM
object.

I have searched the net and tried many approaches and couldn't get it
working. Can someone who has the expereince share his input on this?

Many thanks and I really appreaciate your help.

5 Oct 2005 3:03 PM

Subramanian

did u chk for the atrributes such as DependencyAttribute

reg
Subramanian

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"jamiec" wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I am making a class libaray which is to use interop to work with a unmanaged
> COM object. What happens is that I also need to use .manifest file to control
> the version of COM object to load becuase there are multiple versions of COM
> objects.
>
> example: myapp.exe.manifest
> <?xml version="1.0" ......
> <dependency>
> <dependentAssembly>
> <assemblyIdentity name="..." version="1.3" ... <<== Here specify
> the version of COM object to use
>
> The problem is that I am making a class libaray not a .exe, therefore, I
> need to figure out a way to embed this <dependecy..> into the class library's
> assembly so that my class libaray will always load the right version of COM
> object.
>
> I have searched the net and tried many approaches and couldn't get it
> working. Can someone who has the expereince share his input on this?
>
> Many thanks and I really appreaciate your help.
>

5 Oct 2005 5:08 PM

jamiec

Thanks for the reply.

I checked it but it seems that this attribute is just to let you specify the
assmebly name only but not the version. My case is that I have the same
assembly name with 2 different versions and I would like to control which
version to use.

Jamie

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"Subramanian" wrote:

> did u chk for the atrributes such as DependencyAttribute
>
> reg
> Subramanian
>
> "jamiec" wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am making a class libaray which is to use interop to work with a unmanaged
> > COM object. What happens is that I also need to use .manifest file to control
> > the version of COM object to load becuase there are multiple versions of COM
> > objects.
> >
> > example: myapp.exe.manifest
> > <?xml version="1.0" ......
> > <dependency>
> > <dependentAssembly>
> > <assemblyIdentity name="..." version="1.3" ... <<== Here specify
> > the version of COM object to use
> >
> > The problem is that I am making a class libaray not a .exe, therefore, I
> > need to figure out a way to embed this <dependecy..> into the class library's
> > assembly so that my class libaray will always load the right version of COM
> > object.
> >
> > I have searched the net and tried many approaches and couldn't get it
> > working. Can someone who has the expereince share his input on this?
> >
> > Many thanks and I really appreaciate your help.
> >