Manifest/Control Panel applet

I have a C++ control panel applet which embeds a manifest to use the comctl v6.0 to use the new XP style common controls. When I take the same application and use it on vista, everything is fine except that I do not get the new common controls style.

It appears I need to do something different on vista. I am doing what is suggested in the following MSDN article to enable the new visual style for control panel applets (http://windowssdk.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms649781.aspx#control_panel).

Thanks,
Al.

[717 byte] By [AlBu70] at [2007-12-23]
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Activation contexts are cached in Vista so if you are adding/removing/changing you app's manifest, you need to touch the timestamp of the EXE to get it to refresh.

In addition, you may want to try using the new sxstrace.exe diagnostic tool to see whether or not the system is picking up and processing your manifest as expected.

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