how to get version of dll or exe in CF

[Henrik Bach]

How do I programmatically get to the version of a .dll or .exe in the
Compact Framework?

Henrik Bach

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

Pete Vickers posted this yesterday:-
verMajor =
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly.GetName().Version.Major.ToSt
ring()
verMinor =
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly.GetName().Version.Minor.ToSt
ring()
verRev =
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly.GetName().Version.Revision.T
oString()

Peter

 

[Henrik Bach]

Well, yes, but I would like to get the version from a DLL on the device and
not one loaded in my program.

Henrik Bach

 

[Paul G. Tobey [eMVP]]

Unmanaged DLLs may not have version information in them, but the unmanaged
API consists of three functions:

DWORD GetFileVersionInfoSize(
LPTSTR lptstrFilename,
LPDWORD lpdwHandle
);BOOL GetFileVersionInfo(
LPTSTR lptstrFilename,
DWORD dwHandle,
DWORD dwLen,
LPVOID lpData
);BOOL VerQueryValue(
const LPVOID pBlock,
LPTSTR lpSubBlock,
LPVOID* lplpBuffer,
PUINT puLen
);I believe that these functions work just like their desktop
counterparts...I haven't done P/Invoke declarations for them, but they don't

 

[Geoff Schwab [MSFT]]

If you search for GetFileVersionInfo with the .NET Compact Framework filter
on in the Help you will actually get a sample of how to use these using
P/Invoke.

--
Geoff Schwab
Program Manager
Excell Data Corporation
http://msdn.com/mobility

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

 

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

I've posted a sample method to return the version of any given file (if
available - most Windows CE files don't have a file version resource) here:-
http://www.opennetcf.org/Forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=770

Peter

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Peter Foot
Windows Embedded MVP
OpenNETCF.org Senior Advisor
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