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Author loewis
Recipients loewis, robind
Date 2009-02-09.22:58:10
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It looks like it should be possible to bind to a different comctl32.dll
than what gets loaded by the host application. See this KB article:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/830033

which even claims that you should be able to do so with manifests
(notice how you need to define ISOLATION_AWARE_ENABLED to get different
versions of CreateWindowEx etc); also see the .NET code on how they use
explicit activation contexts 

Also see

http://blogs.msdn.com/junfeng/archive/2007/06/26/rt-manifest-resource-and-isolation-aware-enabled.aspx

for an explanation what resources must be defined so that a DLL can bind
to a different version than the rest of the process.

I think you want to put the comctl32 manifest binding into RT_MANIFEST
resource 2 (not 1, as you probably had tried so far).
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