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netcat
netcat

Reputation: 1335

Add Version number to a generic file in Windows

Last Edit: A Version number cannot be added to a generic file in Windows.

Versioning in Windows comes from a VERSIONINFO resource attached to a binary executable file such as .EXE or .DLL. This resource cannot be attached to any arbitrary file and it is not part of any Alternate Data Stream.

I had thought that the version info was stored in an Alternate Data Stream, but it is not.

Is there a way to add a program version number to the meta-data for a file in Windows that is not an executable or dll? We have a linux app. that will be stored on a Windows server and copied to Linux computers when the version changes.

Edit: I would like to Add versioning info to the file, which is kept in an Alternate File stream for the file.

I would like to write a version number to the meta data so that it could be read from a program using a method similar to this:

string fullPath = "folder_name" + "\\" + "linux_app_name";
if (File.Exists(fullPath))
{
    FileAttributes fileAttributes = File.GetAttributes(fullPath);
    FileVersionInfo verInfo = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(fullPath);
    // todo: add version info to the file.
    textBox1.AppendText("File name:\t" + Path.GetFileName(verInfo.FileName) + '\n');
    textBox1.AppendText("Version Info:\t");         
    if (verInfo.FileVersion != null)
    {
        textBox1.AppendText(verInfo.FileVersion);
    }
    else
    {
        textBox1.AppendText("No Version info.");
    }
}

Thanks in advance for any replies.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2650

Answers (1)

netcat
netcat

Reputation: 1335

I'm posting this answer in case someone else is looking for a way to add versioning to an arbitrary file in Windows that's not a Windows program file.

You can't.

Versioning in Windows comes from a VERSIONINFO resource attached to a binary executable file such as .EXE or .DLL. This resource cannot be attached to any arbitrary file and it is not part of any Alternate Data Stream.

Upvotes: 2

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