token ?OPT.APPMANIFEST? has no impact with CA Gen 8.5 / 8.6 & Visual Studio 2010

Products

• Gen
• Gen - Workstation Toolset
• Gen - Host Encyclopedia
• Gen - Run Time Distributed

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms: 

Applications generated by CA Gen 8.5 (or CA Gen 8.6) with Visual Studio 2010 run without a manifest file.

Cause: 

The token “OPT.APPMANIFEST”  has no impact with CA Gen 8.5 Visual Studio 2010, or with CA Gen 8.6.

 

Resolution/Workaround:

If it is desired to use an application manifest file, you have to copy an <application>.exe.manifest to the location of the .exe. It will be used when it is available within this location.

Additional Information:

The token “OPT.APPMANIFEST”  is described in the CA Gen 8.5 & CA Gen 8.6 wiki under “Working with Profile Tokens in Build Tool” within the section “C profile tokens”    

see :

https://docops.ca.com/ca-gen/8-5/en/developing/working-with-build-tool/working-with-profile-tokens-in-build-tool   

https://docops.ca.com/ca-gen/8-6/en/developing/working-with-build-tool/working-with-profile-tokens-in-build-tool

 

 

Environment

Release: KGNDDL99000-8.5-Gen-DBP Developer License
Component: