How do I specify the manifest for side-by-side assemblies in my header file?

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Published on 2009-12-29T03:46:00Z Indexed on 2010/05/03 3:08 UTC
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I am developing in Visual C++ 2008 using MSMQ. In Windows Vista, the application cannot locate the mqrt.dll which is found at C:\Windows\winsxs>cd x86_microsoft-windows-msmq-runtime-core_31bf3856ad364e35_6. 0.6002.18005_none_574cf1cdb624ee17\mqrt.dll.

The description of the manifest in WinSxS is:

<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3" manifestVersion="1.0" description="MSMQ core runtime component." displayName="MSMQ Core runtime component" company="Microsoft" copyright="Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved." creationTimeStamp="2005-03-11T01:47:18" lastUpdateTimeStamp="2005-03-11T01:48:59">
  <assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft-Windows-msmq-runtime-core" version="6.0.6002.18005" processorArchitecture="x86" language="neutral" buildType="release" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" versionScope="nonSxS" />

I added a #pragma comment into my header file:

#pragma comment(linker, "\"/manifestdependency:name='Microsoft-Windows-msmq-runtime-core' version='6.0.6002.18005' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='31bf3856ad364e35' language='neutral'\"")

The manifest is embedded into the exe using mt.exe. But it does not work. The error message in sxstrace is:

INFO: Resolving reference Microsoft-Windows-msmq-runtime-core,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35",version="6.0.6002.18005".
    INFO: Resolving reference for ProcessorArchitecture x86.
        INFO: Resolving reference for culture Neutral.
            INFO: Applying Binding Policy.
                INFO: No publisher policy found.
                INFO: No binding policy redirect found.
            INFO: Begin assembly probing.
                INFO: Did not find the assembly in WinSxS.
                INFO: Attempt to probe manifest at C:\Windows\assembly\GAC_32\Microsoft-Windows-msmq-runtime-core\6.0.6002.18005__31bf3856ad364e35\Microsoft-Windows-msmq-runtime-core.DLL.
                INFO: Attempt to probe manifest at c:\qt\datamon\bin\Microsoft-Windows-msmq-runtime-core.DLL.
                INFO: Attempt to probe manifest at c:\qt\datamon\bin\Microsoft-Windows-msmq-runtime-core.MANIFEST.
                INFO: Attempt to probe manifest at c:\qt\datamon\bin\Microsoft-Windows-msmq-runtime-core\Microsoft-Windows-msmq-runtime-core.DLL.
                INFO: Attempt to probe manifest at c:\qt\datamon\bin\Microsoft-Windows-msmq-runtime-core\Microsoft-Windows-msmq-runtime-core.MANIFEST.
                INFO: Did not find manifest for culture Neutral.
            INFO: End assembly probing.
    ERROR: Cannot resolve reference Microsoft-Windows-msmq-runtime-core,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35",version="6.0.6002.18005".
ERROR: Activation Context generation failed.

I tried the following pragma, but WinSxS does not even try to resolve msmq (probably because of the versionScope attribute):

#pragma comment(linker, "\"/manifestdependency:name='Microsoft-Windows-msmq-runtime-core' version='6.0.6002.18005' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='31bf3856ad364e35' language='neutral' buildType='release' versionScope='nonSxS'\"")

What is the correct pragma to use?

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