Get Application Version from Resources

Question

Hi everybody!

I need to display my WinAPI application name and version on the main window.

Like: MyApp 1.2.3.0

Now I just saving this info in the cpp file and also in the VS_VERSION resource. I was thinking if only I could save it in one place? Maybe I could do some defines that will extract the info from resources? I saw similar questions here but no clear answer. Thanks.

Best regards,
David

Answer 1

Hi
As @David Lowndes mentioned here, to query the version from a resource one should use VerQueryValue API.
But unfortunately, this API does not support resource IDs directly, moreover, it does modifications to loaded resource's memory. So one should load the resource with LoadResource and then copy it to writable memory. I found a code sample for this: Retrieve the application version from its own resources

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

The key API to use to get a string from the version resource is VerQueryValue