Manifests at resource ID 2 help simplify the lives of DLL authors who want to consume side-by-side components via static imports. Just before processing your DLL's static imports and calling its entrypoint, the loader will create and activate an activation...

As explained earlier , the activation context system is implemented as a per-thread (or per-fiber) stack. Activating a context pushes the context onto the stack, deactivating it pops it from the stack. To ensure that the same sequence of pushes and pops...

As the number of apps in the world that use side-by-side activation (as a result of depending on the new Visual C++ Runtime v8.0) increases, providers of callable code (libraries, control packs, whatever) may start seeing odd and potentially unexpected...