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Var structure

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Represents the organization of data in a file-version resource. It typically contains a list of language and code page identifier pairs that the version of the application or DLL supports.

Syntax

typedef struct {
  WORD  wLength;
  WORD  wValueLength;
  WORD  wType;
  WCHAR szKey;
  WORD  Padding;
  DWORD Value;
} Var;

Members

wLength

Type: WORD

The length, in bytes, of the Var structure.

wValueLength

Type: WORD

The length, in bytes, of the Value member.

wType

Type: WORD

The type of data in the version resource. This member is 1 if the version resource contains text data and 0 if the version resource contains binary data.

szKey

Type: WCHAR

The Unicode string L"Translation".

Padding

Type: WORD

As many zero words as necessary to align the Value member on a 32-bit boundary.

Value

Type: DWORD

An array of one or more values that are language and code page identifier pairs. For additional information, see the following Remarks section.

Remarks

This structure is not a true C-language structure because it contains variable-length members. This structure was created solely to depict the organization of data in a version resource and does not appear in any of the header files shipped with the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK).

If you use the Var structure to list the languages your application or DLL supports instead of using multiple version resources, use the Value member to contain an array of DWORD values indicating the language and code page combinations supported by this file. The low-order word of each DWORD must contain a Microsoft language identifier, and the high-order word must contain the IBM code page number. Either high-order or low-order word can be zero, indicating that the file is language or code page independent. If the Var structure is omitted, the file will be interpreted as both language and code page independent.

Requirements

Requirement Value
Minimum supported client
 Windows 2000 Professional [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server
 Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps only]

See also

Reference

VarFileInfo

StringFileInfo

StringTable

VS_VERSIONINFO

Conceptual

Version Information