The bitmap doesn't display with when using with CStatic control on a CFormView after declaring the manifest to use Windows Common Controls with latest MFC from VS2019 Community Edition

Question

Hi all,

I encountered an issue which I still doesn't understand why.

I had a CStatic control to display an bitmap on a CFormView. My code works fine if I don't do the declaring with the manifest to use Windows Common Controls.

The issue is that after declaring the manifest, I rebuilt the program. Run it and the bitmap won't display. Somehow it got hidden ??? as I only see a blank CFormView body only.

Anybody hit the same issue before? Please let me know how you got it fixed?

Thank you.
An

Answer 1

Thank you for the answer.

I declared it in the stdafx.h as the snippet below

//- Declare the appropriate manifest to use Windows Common Controls
#if defined _M_IX86
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#elif defined _M_IA64
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='ia64' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#elif defined _M_X64
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='amd64' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#else
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#endif

Regards,
An