By default, Microsoft IDE instructs the linker to generate and embed a .NET manifest into our program.
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(Manifest is a text file containing metadata about .NET assemblies, which have nothing to do with MASM Assembler!
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Manifest describes the relationship and dependencies between .NET application components, versioning information, scope information, and the security permissions.)
We don't need any manifests in our executable!
To remove the manifest, click
Project menu -> M1 Properties -> Configuration Properties, then
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-> Linker -> Manifest File -> Generate Manifest -> No.
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-> Manifest Tool -> Input and Output -> Embed Manifest -> No.
Click OK.
Note that there are also Microsoft Macro Assembler property pages at the bottom of the Configuration Properties. Those options we can change later as necessary.