Issue with application manifests on XP

john — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:47:00 GMT

Someone forgot to test for this:

Create an application manifest document (e.g. foo.exe.manifest) and include it as part of your foo application.
Mark the <xml> tag with the encoding="UTF-8" atribute.
Compile and test your sample app; works as expected.
Now use VS's Advanced Save Options dialog (or Notepad's Encoding option on the Save As dialog) to save it as UTF-8 with a BOM marker. This is a perfectly legal option.
Recompile. The test run now fails!

So the process loader's internal XML parser doesn't handle the BOM marker. I'll have to log a bug for this.

The Emission Locus : Windows XP