Getting version of an exe file with out loading assembly

[Brian Henry]

If you want to read in the description/version/copyright of a file (any not
necessarly a .NET one) how would you do this? I just want to list all the
files in a directory and their version numbers if they have one thanks

 

[Tom Shelton]

If you want to read in the description/version/copyright of a file (any not
necessarly a .NET one) how would you do this? I just want to list all the
files in a directory and their version numbers if they have one thanks

You might want to have a look at the System.IO.FileInfo class...

 

[Tom Shelton]

If you want to read in the description/version/copyright of a file (any not
necessarly a .NET one) how would you do this? I just want to list all the
files in a directory and their version numbers if they have one thanks

Ooops! You wanted the file version info... You want to look at
System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo class

Imports System.Diagnostics

Dim versionInfo As FileVersionInfo = _
FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo ("myfile path")

Console.WriteLine (versionInfo.FileVersion)

 

[Brian Henry]

I'm not seeing anything in it's members that deal with the comments, version
number, title, description or copyright of a file in the file info class...

 

[Brian Henry]

thanks! that was what it needed

Ooops! You wanted the file version info... You want to look at
System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo class

Imports System.Diagnostics

Dim versionInfo As FileVersionInfo = _
FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo ("myfile path")

Console.WriteLine (versionInfo.FileVersion)

 

[Scott Allen]

You might want to have a look at the System.IO.FileInfo class...

Or the FileVersionInfo class from System.Diagnostics for richer
information.