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I am using Visual Studio 2010 but has received an external library developed for Visual Studio 2008. If I try to link the library into my program, I get the following error:
Activation context generation failed for "Tutorial.exe".
Dependent Assembly Microsoft.VC90.DebugCRT,processorArchitecture="x86",
publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win3
Is there any way that I can link the library anyway?
From the error message, it seems that you are linking the debug version of the external library that requires the debug version of VS2008 runtime library. Note that Microsoft do not distribute debug versions of their VC runtime library so either you have to
a) Install VS2008 itself so that it installs both debug and release version of VS2008 runtime library into the system.
OR
b) Install VS2008 re-distributable package and use only the release version of the external library in your project.