I thought that my problem was how I was declaring a manifest file.But now I think I can safely rule this out.
I think the probem lies in the way I am loading the DLL/COM objectthat the manifest file references.
The program runs -- sort of. After I embed the manifest file intothe executable. I just cannot step through the code in debug mode.
So I put the manifest file into the list of files that the IDE hadto reference. And then I noticed a big change. Then the executablethat I produced had an error message (that I could ignore and continuerunning the program, if I choose to) that said the probem waswith the way I was loading the COM object.
How do I load a DLL into a GUI front-end written in C#. Whereshould I look for possible problems?