Win32 Programming: How to add version and other information

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Here we’re telling how you can add application information on its executable file. If you don’t understand this tutorial much I suggest you read the previous ones where I shown how to add resource files(resource.h and prog.rc)

Pretty easy task it is. Add following lines in your resource(.rc) file.

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

//

// Version

//

1 VERSIONINFO

 FILEVERSION 1,0,0,0

 PRODUCTVERSION 1,0,0,0

 FILEFLAGSMASK 0x0L

#ifdef _DEBUG

 FILEFLAGS 0x1L

#else

 FILEFLAGS 0x0L

#endif

 FILEOS 0x0L

 FILETYPE 0x1L

 FILESUBTYPE 0x0L

BEGIN

    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"

    BEGIN

        BLOCK "040904e4"

        BEGIN

            VALUE "Comments", "This program shows Bangla Clock in Unicode"

            VALUE "CompanyName", "Saint Group"

            VALUE "FileDescription", "SA OS Tut7 Executable"

            VALUE "FileVersion", "1.0"

            VALUE "InternalName", "Unicode Bangla Clock"

            VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Saint Atique (c) 2009"

            VALUE "LegalTrademarks", "Saint Group"

            VALUE "OriginalFilename", "SA-OS Tutorial 7.exe"

            VALUE "ProductName", "SA-OS Tutorial"

            VALUE "ProductVersion", "1.0"

        END

    END

    BLOCK "VarFileInfo"

    BEGIN

        VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1252

    END

END

Change the information according to your need. Build and run the solution.

Details about versioninfo resource on msdn:

          http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa381058(VS.85).aspx