Visual Studio 2005 Issue

[soper87]

I have Visual Studio 2005 installed and have applied SP1 to this as well as adding the Microsoft VS 2005 SP1 C++ Re-distributable package to the software.

The main issue I have found is that the manifest files that are created during the build don't have the most recent version numbers in them, meaning that taking the executable to a different machine won't work. Is there any easy fix for this?

When looking at the VS version number in Help ... About the Service Pack is shown as: (SP.050727-7600). I would have thought it should show as SP1?

Could the system be holding the old version in the registry and causing this issue?

[oracleguy]

And you are installing the redistributable on the other computer before trying to run your program for the first time?

[soper87]

Yeah the re-distributable has been installed onto both machines. The issues seems to be that the manifest file that is generated by the build process is being built with an older version number, and not the actual version number being held in Visual Studio. Would this possibly be a registry issue where the system still has the old version number stored away and hasn't been correctly updated?

[oracleguy]

Yeah that is weird. You could try using your own manifest and specifying the version numbers manually.

[soper87]

Deleted the older version of the re-distributable package as it was still showing as installed and this has apparently fixed the issue. I assumed installing the newest package removed the older one but for some it reason it hadn't done this.

Thanks for the help though :thumbsup:

[oracleguy]

I'm glad you figured it out. Maybe when the new package got installed some reference didn't get updated properly or something.