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Raymond Lewallen

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Raymond Lewallen is a .Net developer and Sql Server DBA

What's in your manifest file?

Posted: Jul 5, 2005 9:13 PM

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The manifest is the heart and soul of managed code. The manifest contains all the metadata that describes an assembly and its modules. Manifest files can be very complex, but all have the basic, similar components. The following is the information contained in the manifest file.

Contents â contains information about the external types and resources exposed by the assembly in two metadata tables: ExportedType and ManifestResource.
Custom attributes â contained in the CustomAttribute metadata table, this has information that compilers use.
Dependencies â contained in three metadata tables: AssemblyRef, File and ModuleRef

Assemblies referenced by this assembly
Modules contained within this assembly

Identity â contains the following information about the assembly in two metadata tables: Module and Assembly

Name
Version number
Culture (optional) if the assembly contains localized resources
Language
Processor architecture
Public key (optional) if the assembly is strongly named
Type

Requested permissions â contains information about the permissions for the assembly. If specific permissions exist for classes and methods within the assembly, this information is also contained here, in the metadata table DeclSecurity.

Here is the xml manifest file from NDocGui: XML Manifest File<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<assembly xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" manifestVersion="1.0">
<dependency>
   <dependentAssembly>
      <assemblyIdentity
           type="win32"
           name="Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls" version="6.0.0.0"
           language="*"
           processorArchitecture="*"
           publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df"
      />
   </dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
</assembly>

And here is a partial xml manifest file from Sql Server 2005 Report Builder:

Partial XML Manifest File<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<asmv1:assembly xsi:schemaLocation="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1 assembly.adaptive.xsd" manifestVersion="1.0" xmlns:dsig="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#" xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2" xmlns:asmv1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1" xmlns:asmv2="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<asmv1:assemblyIdentity name="ReportBuilder.exe" version="9.0.1116.8" publicKeyToken="49ef3e7f44a9c98c" language="neutral" processorArchitecture="msil" type="win32" />
<application />
<entryPoint>
    <assemblyIdentity name="ReportBuilder" version="9.0.242.0" publicKeyToken="89845DCD8080CC91" language="neutral" processorArchitecture="msil" />
    <commandLine file="ReportBuilder.exe" parameters="" />
</entryPoint>
<trustInfo>
    <security>
      <applicationRequestMinimum>
        <PermissionSet class="System.Security.PermissionSet" version="1" Unrestricted="true" ID="Custom" SameSite="site" />
        <defaultAssemblyRequest permissionSetReference="Custom" />
      </applicationRequestMinimum>
    </security>
</trustInfo>
<dependency>
    <dependentAssembly dependencyType="install" allowDelayedBinding="true" codebase="ReportBuilder.exe" size="4000472">
      <assemblyIdentity name="ReportBuilder" version="9.0.242.0" publicKeyToken="89845DCD8080CC91" language="neutral" processorArchitecture="msil" />
      <hash>
        <dsig:Transforms>
          <dsig:Transform Algorithm="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:HashTransforms.Identity" />
        </dsig:Transforms>
        <dsig:DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1" />
        <dsig:DigestValue>0DSoD97rXghsciRhGS2B+8pVKmA=</dsig:DigestValue>
      </hash>
    </dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <dependentAssembly dependencyType="install" allowDelayedBinding="true" codebase="ja\ReportBuilder.resources.dll" size="858840">
      <assemblyIdentity name="ReportBuilder.resources" version="9.0.242.0" publicKeyToken="89845DCD8080CC91" language="ja" processorArchitecture="msil" />
      <hash>
        <dsig:Transforms>
          <dsig:Transform Algorithm="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:HashTransforms.Identity" />
        </dsig:Transforms>
        <dsig:DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1" />
        <dsig:DigestValue>jYhRPAnvhsedfvtUZwN5K0kIzgg=</dsig:DigestValue>
      </hash>
    </dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <dependentAssembly dependencyType="preRequisite" allowDelayedBinding="true">
      <assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.Windows.CommonLanguageRuntime" version="2.0.50215.0" />
    </dependentAssembly>
</dependency>
<file name="ReportBuilder.chm" size="277334">
    <hash>
      <dsig:Transforms>
        <dsig:Transform Algorithm="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:HashTransforms.Identity" />
      </dsig:Transforms>
      <dsig:DigestMethod Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#sha1" />
      <dsig:DigestValue>hSQcVQnx+vGAEoeFaNJ8b8IH4uw=</dsig:DigestValue>
    </hash>
</file>

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