Application manifest schema

Question

Is there any documentation which describes all the valid elements for a Windows application manifest, which namespace they are in, and which Windows versions will use them? All the documentation I found so far describes only parts of the manifest, and I have seen different XML namespaces used for the same element.

What I have found so far:

• Manifest Files Reference/Application Manifests seems to have full documentation of the urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1 namespace plus the compatibility/supportedOS stuff (from the urn:schemas-microsoft-com:compatibility.v1 namespace). It has a link to a schema file which does not have the compatibility/supportedOS stuff.
• Step 6: Create and Embed an Application Manifest (UAC) documents the trustInfo/requestedExecutionLevel stuff as being in the urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2 namespace. However, I have seen other places saying it is in the urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3 namespace.
• SetProcessDPIAware Function documents an application/windowsSettings/dpiAware thing as using both the urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v3 namespace and a http://schemas.microsoft.com/SMI/2005/WindowsSettings namespace.
• Application Manifest XML Schemas looks like a set of schema files for some of these namespaces, but it seems to contradict the other references (for instance, unless I am misreading the xsd, dependency is in the urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v2 namespace, while the first reference above implies it is in the urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1 namespace).

Answer 1

There's no such thing. In fact I'd bet that there are still some completely undocumented parts of the manifest. Indeed, for a long time the only documentation of the DPI aware part was in Raymond Chen's blog and book!