On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 08:27:56PM +0100, Stewart Gordon wrote: > Indeed, I'd like to know why M$ decided to bundle two versions of the > relevant DLLs and require the programmer to use a manifest in order to > access the modern version.
Backward compatibility. Details here: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2008/01/29/7294949.aspx -- Adam D. Ruppe http://arsdnet.net
