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I am using Adobe's products and have been getting this annoying error: Activation context generation failed for "C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat 9.0\Designer 8.2\FormDesigner.exe". Dependent Assembly Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls,language="*",processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="6595b64144ccf1df",type="win32",version="6.0.0.0" could not be found. Please use sxstrace.exe for detailed diagnosis. Can anyone point me in the direction of the problem? Thank you!
January 6th, 2010 6:46pm

There appears to be a (highly technical) workaround listed in this thread:http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistaapps/thread/a4c36078-6419-4424-8a43-ff3832786b59This is the pertinent text: This error is caused by a wrong manifest embedded in the FormDesigner application. If you open the application in Visual Studio and extract the manifest you will see two references to the common controls dll - one processor-agnostic (*) version and one version requiring x86. On a 64-bit machine processor-agnostic references will appearantly resolve to the 64-bit version. The error in the event log is legitimate since imports are already defined from whatever version was process first. To test just try removing the processor-agnostic reference from the manifest and resave the app in Visual Studio. When you rerun the app the errors are gone.IMO this should be fixed by Adobe - and obviously since the FormDesigner app is 32-bit the reference should be restricted to 32-bit. -Noel
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January 6th, 2010 6:59pm

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