Modern Windows GUI visual styles

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 08:27:56PM +0100, Stewart Gordon wrote:
> Indeed, I'd like to know why M$ decided to bundle two versions of the 
> relevant DLLs and require the programmer to use a manifest in order to 
> access the modern version.

Backward compatibility. Details here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2008/01/29/7294949.aspx


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