2024-08-23 14:04 AEST by CVS Support - The manifest for executables contains useful information for the windows 
operating system about the application executable (.exe) before it is ran.

The current manifests date back to Windows XP and Windows 7, and have not been 
updated with specifics for newer Windows versions like Windows 10 and windows 
11.

With the release of a build targeting ONLY windows 10/11 we can also update 
these manifests.

It's worth having this as a separate bug for the same reason that bug 7841 
"update icons" is separate - it's a clearly identifiable change that also 
represents a different unit of work for the development team.

2024-08-23 14:18 AEST by CVS Support - Created an attachment (id=3779)
manifest from vs2022

Finding details of how to use updated manifests with Win32 C++ is difficult.eg:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sbscs/manifest-files-reference 


I extracted the manifest for vs2022 to use as a guide.

To extract the manifest I used 'resourcehacker' downloaded from here:
https://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/#download

2024-08-23 14:33 AEST by CVS Support - Created an attachment (id=3780)
manifest from %windir%\System32\Control.exe

2024-08-23 14:42 AEST by CVS Support - Created an attachment (id=3781)
manifest from firefox

2024-08-23 14:45 AEST by CVS Support - Created an attachment (id=3782)
firefox.VisualElementsManifest.xml

this file is installed in the same directory as firefox.exe

the paths to the PNG files are relative to firefox.exe

Here are all the files installed:
19/08/2024  22:28	     15,664 PrivateBrowsing_150.png
19/08/2024  22:28	      5,752 PrivateBrowsing_70.png
19/08/2024  22:28	     23,037 VisualElements_150.png
19/08/2024  22:28	      8,763 VisualElements_70.png

2024-08-23 14:56 AEST by CVS Support - Created an attachment (id=3783)
msedge.VisualElementsManifest.xml

2024-08-23 15:14 AEST by CVS Support - this is the documentation for customizing a start screen tile:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-
versions/windows/apps/dn393983(v=win.10)


changing subject from:
win: manifests for Windows 10/11

to:
win: manifests and customized "Start" screen tiles for Windows 10/11

What apps/exe should get a customized start screen tile?

Good to start with these two I think:

WorkspaceManager
ReleaseManager

2024-08-23 15:15 AEST by CVS Support - Created an attachment (id=3784)
firefox 150x150 visual element

2024-08-23 15:16 AEST by CVS Support - Created an attachment (id=3785)
firefox 70 x 70 visual element

2024-08-25 23:19 AEST by CVS Support - See Bug 7841 for commits