A while ago I tried to get the visual styles working for my application - to improve the look of the dialog buttons from flat to shaded. I did all that was required but failed to get it to work. I rebuilt my application today and found that it worked. However at the end of the build I got the error:
77 general error c101008d failed to write the updated manifest to the resource of application. Access is denied; MT.exe.
I rebuilt the application and the error went away but the buttons were again flat.
I did a search on the web for this error and found a recommendation to set Embeded Manifest to No in the project properties. I made this change to the properties of my application and now it seems reliably to produce the desired visual style.
Thought I'd report it in case anyone else is having the same issue.
