Advantages
- For applications that have been built with SxS, multiple applications may coexist that depend on different versions of the same DLL. This is in contrast to non-SxS DLL environments where an original DLL in a shared system folder may be overwritten by the subsequent installation of another program that depends on a different version of the same DLL.
- The XML formatting of the manifest is human-legible and thus makes it easier for developers to determine the dependencies of an application and their versions.
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