Building and deploying dll on windows: SxS, manifests and all that jazz

Question

Since VS 2005, I see that it is not possible to simply build a dll against MS runtime and deploy them together (http://www.ddj.com/windows/184406482). I am deeply confused by ma

Answer 1

Here is the blog entry explaining the rational behind the SxS crt decision for VC++. It includes explaining how bad it is to statically link the crt, and why you shouldn't do that.

Here is the documentation on how to statically link the crt.