GUI app and winAPI calls

[RhoSigma]

Only thing which is not clear to me is this about manifest:

With the release of QB64 v2.0  a seperate manifest nolonger required for Windows controls:
"Automatically embeds a manifest file when compiling an exe with $VersionInfo, so that Common Controls v6.0 gets linked at runtime.

So my question is what is $VersionInfo ?

Just look into the first 20 lines of source/qb64pe.bas, and the respective Wiki page.