Application Manifest, dependent Assemblies

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Hi,

Out of curriosity, I was trying to look at the content of MyApp.exe.manifest.

As expected, it has list of assembly dlls on which it depends as dependentassembly.

for example:

<dependentassembly dependencytype="preRequisite" allowdelayedbinding="true">
<assemblyidentity name="Microsoft.Windows.CommonLanguageRuntime" version="2.0.50727.0">

I am wondering, MyApp also references System.dll, System.Data.dll etc..so why these assemblies are not included in manifest file as dependent assembly.

Thanks!!!

Posted 21-Feb-12 16:45pm

Rahul83

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Mohammad A Rahman 21-Feb-12 22:51pm

Please explain bit more.

Rahul83 21-Feb-12 22:58pm

I can see all the assembly dlls in generated app.exe.manifest file that I referred in my ConsoleApplications. It makes sense to me as well, because manifest need to have all reference of all dependent assemblies as well.

So I was expecting System.dll, System.Data.dll etc also to be present in manifest file as a dependent assembly, which is not the case, though I added them from Reference->AddReferences.

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Ganesan Senthilvel · Answer 1 · 2012-02-21T17:05:00

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There are few system default namespaces supplied by .NET BCL (Base Class Library), such as System.dll and System.Data.dll

Manifest is the reference for add on assemblies; not default. Hope, it clears your query.

Posted 21-Feb-12 17:05pm

Ganesan Senthilvel

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Rahul83 22-Feb-12 0:28am

So, it like that System.dll and System.Data.dll are loaded by CLR by default, inspite of there reference in manifest file as dependent assemblies?