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The Activation Context API is used to manage the activation context and create version-named objects with manifests. It is part of the standard (ie unmanaged) Windows programming API.

The Activation Context API is used to manage the activation context and create version-named objects with manifests. It is part of the standard (ie unmanaged) Windows programming API. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/sbscs/using-the-activation-context-api

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WebKit.Net and OpenWebKitSharp Error: Failed to initialize activation context

I am using both/either WebKit.Net and OpenWebKitSharp. However, as soon as I try to instantiate the WebKitBrowser, I get an error: Failed to initialize activation context Does anybody know what this is?
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LoadLibraryEx ignores side-by-side manifest

Does LoadLibraryEx function use side-by-side manifests? I have bar.dll with embedded SxS manifest, and that manifest describes version of this bar.dll, other dll file foo.dll has manifest that lists bar.dll as dependency, with specified version. But…
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CreateEx Causes Unhandled exception The activation context being deactivated is not the most recently activated one

itsAnalysisDataTable.CreateEx( WS_EX_CLIENTEDGE, AfxRegisterWndClass( CS_DBLCLKS, LoadCursor( NULL, IDC_ARROW ), (HBRUSH)::GetStockObject( NULL_BRUSH ), NULL ), "AnalysiysTable", WS_CHILD | WS_VISIBLE | WS_VSCROLL | WS_TABSTOP, dialogItemRect, this,…
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Win32. Enable visual styles in dll

I've got no experience in C++ and Win API so sorry if this question is nooby. I've got DLL where I create some components, MessageBox for example. I added pragma comment to enable visual styles and it does not work (and it shouldn't as I know from…
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Activation Context lost when working with WinForm?

I have an application that uses some classes from a native COM dll in Isolated Deployment. Simplified: In run-time I download the dll with its manifest file to a certain directory without registering it. I then create an Activation Context pointing…
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When creating a reg-free managed COM object, how can I get the CLR to look in a directory different to the main application's executable?

This is a kind of complex question, hitting on somewhat arcane areas relating to COM, the CLR, and reg-free COM. First, my main application is written in python. As such, it's codebase (in development) is at, say, C:\mainapp\main.py. Of course, on…
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Using Activation Context API with many dlls in different locations

I am using Activation Context API in a .Net client running in a location A to load a COM component reg-free in location B (which is completely different location to A, not a sibling/descendent etc. on the same machine) on WS2008 by passing in…
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Embed a Registration-Free COM manifest into a C# dll with native/managed environment

I'm currently working on a mixed native / managed application chain, which employs registration-free COM. The following image illustrates this: The C# wrapper DLL has been created using the tlbimp.exe utility. This allows each of the C# executables…
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Using Activation Context API in C++ component

I am a c# developer currently working on some legacy c++ com components. I am trying to add activation context api code to the com components in order to call other com components without registration. I wrote a dummy c++ project to play with the…
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Registration-Free COM not playing nice with single threaded objects. Activation context dropped during marshaling

I'm working on integrating a COM/CLI based library into a Java based application through JNI (yeah, it's a bit of a mess). For the most part it's working, but I've hit a bit of a snag when it comes to how activation contexts interact with single…
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Create Activation Context Failes

I try to put my VS 2012 .Net Project together with an old native Dll built with VS 2005 in one directory. For installation reason, I can not install the VC Redists on the users machine, therefore I put msvcr, msvcp, msvcm and vcomp Dll in the…
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Is it correct to load the assembly manifest directly into the application context?

I'm currently trying to get a rather tangled scheme running with registration free COM. It's not that it is not working, it's that I have hit a kind of confusing situation, where it seems I should active the manifest of the assembly dependency…
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Where do I need to switch the Activation Context?

The problem I'm facing is essentially described here, that is: I have a DLL that is using a 3rd party in-process COM component dll. I want to use registration free COM with that in-process component. I want to embed and use a manfest into this DLL…
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What's wrong with this Windows API call WaitForSingleObject?

The process got crashed unstably in Windows 7. I use !analyze -v command in WinDbg for exception analysis. It tells below information. The exception is actually thrown by WaitForSingleObject function which is called by IrsSim!IrsNet_BlockOutput.…
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Assembly identity names in SxS manifests

I have two questions regarding activation context API and SxS manifests. They look like very simple, but still I cannot find any good answer for them. I have two dll libraries with filenames foo.dll and bar.dll, both with embedded manifests, foo…
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