Version Information of a File on disk

Description

About Classes used

 #1: An object of FileVersionInfo class Provides version information for a physical file on disk.
 
#2: The Information retrieved from object of FileVersionInfo class is READ-ONLY information.
We cannot alter or modify this information.

Namespace Required - System.Diagnostics

Here I implemented the Code for retrieving version information for a physical file on disk.

The Code

1. Put the following code into your program (do necessary changes).  

// txtPath is the Name of TextBox Control
 
// New instance of FileVersionInfo
FileVersionInfo info = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(txtPath.Text);
 
String Info     "File Name  : " + info.FileName +
                  "InternalName   : " + info.InternalName +
                  "ProductName    : " + info.ProductName +
                        "ProductVersion : " + info.ProductVersion +
                        "OriginalFilename : " + info.OriginalFilename +
                  "LegalTrademarks  : " + info.LegalTrademarks +
                        "LegalCopyright   : " + info.LegalCopyright +
                        "FileDescription  : " + info.FileDescription +
                        "CompanyName        : " + info.CompanyName +
                        "Comments         : " + info.Comments;

Listing 1

2. Now you can pass this string to any label or text control. (Here I used it for a Text Control)

3. Now execute the Application and see the result (Figure 1).

Intended Result:

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Figure 1

Summary

In this piece of writing, using C# environment, we have seen how to retrieve version information for a specified physical file from disk.