Hank,

Thanks for that insight. It explains some issues we've had with a handful of customer sites. GDIPlus.dll is shipped as part of a merge module (MS) so we've never bothered to grasp what's really happening under the hood. Only today I observed that the file wasn't in the location it should be in. In fact it doesn'tt even get installed, instead the installer appers to simply reference one already on the client.

It also explains why it appears a few apps appear to install their own versions. Thanks.

This:
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Windows will use a dll installed in the application directory regardless of registry settings if a version is found in the startup directory for the application
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is a real gem. Is this true even as far back as WIn2K?



>Hi Mathias,
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>The only drawback I see is if you want to have your app certified as "Works With" for MS Partner certification. One of the rules is you can't replace any of the dll's installed with the operating system, or the service pack(s) installed. That said, you could put the dll in your application directory and not register it (leaving the original dll registered): Windows will use a dll installed in the application directory regardless of registry settings if a version is found in the startup directory for the application.
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>Hank
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>>I have just found out GDIPlus.dll isn't one of these files that can be 'specific' to a version of windows.
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>>If you look in the registry applications (most ms ones) appear to update the values to point to the latest one (office11)
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>>The simple answer is Yes, it actually makes sense to deploy the latest one.
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>>I would like to know if anyone has a different view to that.
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>>Mathias
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>>>Hi everybody,
>>>
>>>I'm trying to put the minimal DLLs set in some directory using http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFP9RuntimeFiles as a guidance.
>>>
>>>I see that I need gdiPlus.dll I found several copies of it on my local c drive with C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11 containing the latest (2008) file.
>>>
>>>Does it make sense to pick up this file and put it in my installation directory?
>>>
>>>What would you suggest?
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance.