How to avoid manual editing of manifest file

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Published on 2010-05-05T10:15:07Z Indexed on 2010/05/11 5:04 UTC
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My application uses isolated activeX (outer), that depends on another activeX (inner), both are using registration-free-com.

The generated manifest file contains only the information for the outer activeX. (probably because vs cannot know that the outer activeX is using inner activeX )

When I re-build my project, I always need to manually add the information for the inner activeX to the manifest file, otherwise the application only shows the outer, without the inner.

Is there a way to inform visual studio (2008) that I do not want it to re-generate the manifest file for each build?
Will I have such option if I upgrade to VS2010 ?

Thanks,

Atara

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