I installed Visual Studio 2019 but when I open it this error occurs: "The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event...

Running on Windows, does a .NET Core process support in process side by side execution of .NET 4 as described here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/deployment/in-process-side-by-...

I have a c# class library project that uses a COM dll registered on the system. I now want to deploy the COM dll as a side-by-side assembly, so I don't have to register it, or interfere with other ...

Does LoadLibraryEx function use side-by-side manifests? I have bar.dll with embedded SxS manifest, and that manifest describes version of this bar.dll, other dll file foo.dll has manifest that list...

We are trying to add unit testing to out legacy c++ COM application. We also need our build machines to be able to runt he unit tests to ensure each build hasn't introduced errors. However we don't...

Issue I wrote a C++ project called 'Foo' using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Verison 8.0.50727.762 (SP.050727-7600) on Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 3. I built the project into ...

I'm trying to add an application manifest that requires elevation to my .NET 2.0 EXE. I've done that for a simple EXE and it worked without any problems, but on this more complex EXE it's not worki...

I am facing a very obscure issue, while I am trying to run a java app in Windows, Side by Side (SxS). I have done all the preparation creating the java.exe.config and java.exe.manifest files, whic...

I have a .net windows service which needs to load two different versions of an assembly. It runs on a server 2012 R2 box. I am using a binding redirect in separate .config file which is loaded into...

Does anyone know which relation may exist between registration-free COM and drag/drop functionality? Specifically, we have a huge C++ CAD/CAM application comprising a number of EXEs and several hu...

At the moment I have something like this for a registration-free COM setup: a.exe (depends on b.dll; does not directly depend on c.dll) a.exe.manifest (declares registration-free COM registration...

TL;DR Do all registry entries produced by regsvr32 need to be present in a SxS reg-free-COM manifest and vice versa? I'm trying to get registration free COM going for a third party component. R...

The problem I'm facing is essentially described here, that is: I have a DLL that is using a 3rd party in-process COM component dll. I want to use registration free COM with that in-process compone...

When I run Visual Studio 2012 Professional I get a side by side configuration error message. Message: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe The application has fa...

I am in the process of creating an MSI for our product. I would like the product to be able to install side-by-side. So that I can install 1.0.0 first and later can add 1.0.1 so that the two versio...

I'm curently trying to get registration-free COM working with Excel as the client, and a .NET dll as the server. Currently I'm simply trying to get a proof-of-concept working but am having trouble....

I'm not talking about calling a VBA COM from C#... the other way around! What I would like to do is call a C# library using VBA in MS Access without registering the DLL. I've been playing around w...

Is there a way to activate a COM component which is an EXE COM application and also it's dependent COM dlls? I want to activate this COM component from .NET application(VS 2005/VS 2008). The path...

I'm working with VS2010 on a project that uses Havok, and the latest release only has VS2008 and earlier binaries. The embedded manifest generated by VS contains the following <assemblyIdentit...

I'm here because of a sibe-by-side configuration error. When I try to launch a game, it pops a side-by-side configuration error. I try lots of stuff that didn't work, but then, I found this s...

I am running a program that I built in Visual Studio 2010 which uses a third party DLL "ABC.DLL". I am on Windows 7 64-bits. However, it fails to run due to one DLL. When running Dependency walker...

If you call LoadLibrary without a path (e.g., LoadLibrary("whatever.dll"), Windows will generally follow its standard search algorithm, the same one it uses to find EXEs. My question is this: supp...

We have a large MFC application that uses a number of DLLs. So far we have been using vcredist_x86.exe to install MFC and the CRT into the unmanaged side by side assembly cache (C:\Windows\WinSxS)....

I came across Side-by-side Assemblies for the first time today while trying to install a Debug install set to a test machine. I managed it in the end, but was left with several questions: Whare a...

We include a 3rd Party lib+DLL that recently causes a lot of trouble on installations. Using dependencywalker, we found that the dll itself refers to two different Versions of MSVCR80.DLL: Versio...