Mage.exe does not directly support adding a custom trust section. You can add one using a text editor, an XML parser, or the graphical tool MageUI.exe. For more information about how to use MageUI.exe to add custom trust sections, see MageUI.exe (Manifest Generation and Editing Tool, Graphical Client). Windows manifest files are Win32 resources. In other words, they're embedded towards the end of the EXE or DLL. You can use LoadLibraryEx, FindResource, LoadResource and LockResource to load the embedded resource. Here's a simple example that extracts its own manifest.
We recommended that you embed the manifest of your application or library inside the final binary because this guarantees correct runtime behavior in most scenarios. By default, Visual Studio tries to embed the manifest when it builds a project. For more information, see Manifest Generation in Visual Studio. However, if you build your application by using nmake, you have to make some changes to the makefile. This section shows how to change the makefiles so that it automatically embeds the manifest inside the final binary.
Two approaches
There are two ways to embed the manifest inside an application or library.
If you are not doing an incremental build you can directly embed the manifest using a command line similar to the following as a post-build step:
or
Use 1 for an EXE and 2 for a DLL.
If you are doing an incremental build, use the following steps:
Link the binary to generate the MyApp.exe.manifest file.
Convert the manifest to a resource file.
Re-link (incrementally) to embed the manifest resource into the binary.
The following examples show how to change makefiles to incorporate both techniques.
Makefiles (Before)
Consider the nmake script for MyApp.exe, a simple application built from one file:
If this script is run unchanged with Visual Studio, it successfully creates MyApp.exe. It also creates the external manifest file MyApp.exe.manifest, for use by the operating system to load dependent assemblies at runtime.
The nmake script for MyLibrary.dll looks very similar:
Makefiles (After)
To build with embedded manifests you have to make four small changes to the original makefiles. For the MyApp.exe makefile:
For the MyLibrary.dll makefile:
The makefiles now include two files that do the real work, makefile.inc and makefile.targ.inc.
Create makefile.inc and copy the following into it:
Now create makefile.targ.inc and copy the following into it:
See also
Active2 years, 11 months ago
Is there an easy way to read an application's already embedded manifest file?
I was thinking along the lines of an alternate data stream?
Windows manifest files are Win32 resources. In other words, they're embedded towards the end of the EXE or DLL. You can use LoadLibraryEx, FindResource, LoadResource and LockResource to load the embedded resource.
Here's a simple example that extracts its own manifest..
Alternatively, you can use MT.EXE from the Windows SDK:
Open the file in Notepad. The thing's in plain text.
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Resource Tuner would be nice if it supported x64 code, but as of today it's still only for 32-bit apps. Resource Hacker (the newest public beta) does support both x86 and x64 which is available from here:http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/
The easiest way to view/edit manifests in compiled apps is using Resource Tuner:http://www.restuner.com/tour-manifest.htm
In some cases, it's more robust than mt.exe from MS, and it's a visual tool.
WylderWylder
Working a bit from Roger's code, here's the code that I use. It assume that the Manifest is at id #1. I guess this is the default for .exe. See the comment by Wedge, you may have to also check id #2 if you're working with DLL.
SamphanSamphan
Fix this problem by deleting the developers license (*_TemporaryKey.pfx) from the project or change Name of .pfx .
Download samp dracoblue version. As a side reminder: remember that manifests can also be standalone files with the same name as the app (extended by '.manifest').
So if you want to check out which manifest is really used at runtime, this must be taken into account.
Extract Manifest From Exe Free
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Extract Exe From Msi
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