How to get any windows executable file version ?

[microbious]

If it matters i run windows 7

I was trying the following.

$version = FileGetVersion (@ProgramsDir & "\Common Files\Macrovision Shared\FLEXnet Publisher\FNPLicensingService.exe")
MsgBox (0,'',$version)

Return was 0.0.0.0

But i know file version is 11.6.10 as is shows in file properties Details tab

Is there any other way to read file property value ?

Thanks in advance.

[omikron48]

From help file:

Failure: Returns "0.0.0.0" if no version information (or other error) or "" when retrieving a stringname, and sets @error to 1.

Try using one of the strings for the second parameter:

stringname can be the basic one as :

Comments, InternalName, ProductName, CompanyName, LegalCopyright, ProductVersion,

FileDescription, LegalTrademarks, PrivateBuild, FileVersion, OriginalFilename, SpecialBuild

Edited November 13, 2009 by omikron48

[microbious]

From help file:

Sorry i had wrong @programsdir instead of @programfilesdir

Ok so what does @error 1 tell me anyway ? Can i somehow translate @error to words i can understand ?

Thanks for quick reply and please, if you know how to read file property value's please do tell

[bo8ster]

Again from the help file "@error - Status of the error flag. See the SetError function." Lets you know if a function encountered an error.

[omikron48]

Haven't tried using FileGetVersion yet. But based from the help file, a return value of "0.0.0.0" and @error = 1 means that either there is no version info or the version info is a blank string.

In your case, I'd guess that you'd want to use the second parameter and see what you can get from there, like ProductVersion or FileVersion, maybe. See what information you can find from the exe.

[microbious]

Haven't tried using FileGetVersion yet. But based from the help file, a return value of "0.0.0.0" and @error = 1 means that either there is no version info or the version info is a blank string.

In your case, I'd guess that you'd want to use the second parameter and see what you can get from there, like ProductVersion or FileVersion, maybe. See what information you can find from the exe.

already said that i used wrong path, so thats fixed.

how about reading other description values, like original name and language and product name and stuff ?

thanks in advance

[omikron48]

I think that's where the second parameter comes in, with the stringname(s) and all that.