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:
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.
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