How do you get XP visual styles manifest to work on x64 Windows 7?

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I have an application written in VC6 that includes the typical XP visual styles manifest in the directory along with the exe (app.exe.manifest). It's contents are as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<assemblyIdentity
    version="1.0.0.0"
    processorArchitecture="x86"
    name="Company.Product.App"
    type="win32"
/>
<description>Application Description</description>
<dependency>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity
    type="win32"
    name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls"
    version="6.0.0.0"
    processorArchitecture="x86"
    publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
    language="*"
/>
</dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
</assembly>

This gives the expected result running on XP. I just tried this for the first time on x64 Windows 7, but it isn't using visual styles. I have not tried this on any other x64 OS, nor have I tried on x86 Windows (or Vista for that matter).

I saw some references to changing processorArchitecture to "*" to get it to work with x64, so I tried that, but it didn't make any difference. Is there a way to make this work?

Posted 13-Feb-10 5:08am

steve00

Updated 13-Feb-10 5:28am

Abhishek Sur

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Jörgen Sigvardsson · Answer 1 · 2010-02-16T05:29:00

Look at this:

C++

#if defined _M_IX86
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#elif defined _M_IA64
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='ia64' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#elif defined _M_X64
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='amd64' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#else
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#endif

I found it here: http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showthread.php?t=467722[^]

I have seen this code generated for VS2008 projects, so I'm assuming it ought to work.