CVersionInfo v1.13 A C++ class to encapsulate the Windows Version API

This simple little class encapsulates the SDK calls which access version info from Win32 files. Most executables and DLL's have a VS_VERSION_INFO resource associated with them and this class provides a simple C++ class to programmatically access this information.

Features

• Code is UNICODE enabled and build configurations are provided.
• All code compiles cleanly at level 4.
• Small footprint, total size amounts to just c. 300 lines of code.

The enclosed zip file contains the CVersionInfo source code, documentation and a simple MFC dialog based app which allows the version info details of any file to be displayed.

Copyright

• You are allowed to include the source code in any product (commercial, shareware, freeware or otherwise) when your product is released in binary form.
• You are allowed to modify the source code in any way you want except you cannot modify the copyright details at the top of each module.
• If you want to distribute source code with your application, then you are only allowed to distribute versions released by the author. This is to maintain a single distribution point for the source code.

Updates

v1.13 (7 February 2022)

• Updated the code to use C++ uniform initialization for all variable declarations.
• Updated copyright details.

v1.12 (12 April 2020)

• Fixed more Clang-Tidy static code analysis warnings in the code.

v1.11 (14 March 2020)

• Updated copyright details.
• Fixed more Clang-Tidy static code analysis warnings in the code.

v1.10 (21 December 2019)

• Fixed various Clang-Tidy static code analysis warnings in the code.

v1.09 (21 April 2019)

• Updated copyright details.
• Removed the code path supported by the non defunct CVERSIONINFO_MFC_EXTENSIONS define

v1.08 (16 September 2018)

• Fixed a number of compiler warnings when using VS 2017 15.8.4

v1.07 (4 June 2018)

• Updated copyright details.
• Fixed a number of C++ core guidelines compiler warnings. These changes mean that the code will now only compile on VC 2017 or later.

v1.06 (26 September 2017)

• Updated copyright details.
• Replaced NULL throughout the codebase with nullptr. This means that the minimum requirement for the framework is now VC 2010.
• Replaced CString::operator LPC*STR() calls throughout the codebase with CString::GetString calls
• Made all the Get* methods const.

v1.05 (2 January 2016)

• Updated copyright details.
• CVersionInfo::GetValue now uses wostringstream and ostringstream instead of wstringstream and stringstream.

v1.04 (29 November 2015)

• Updated the code to clean compile in VC 2015.
• Reworked the classes to optionally compile without MFC. By default the class now use STL classes and idioms but if you define CVERSIONINFO_MFC_EXTENSIONS the class will revert back to the MFC behaviour.
• All the class methods have had SAL annotations added

v1.03 (4 January 2015)

• Updated the code to clean compile in VC 2010 - VC 2013.
• Updated copyright details.
• Replaced all TRACE calls with ATLTRACE.

v1.02 (14 September 2008)

• Updated copyright details.
• Code now compiles cleanly using Code Analysis (/analyze)
• Updated code to compile correctly using _ATL_CSTRING_EXPLICIT_CONSTRUCTORS define
• Updated sample app to clean compile on VC 2008
• The code has now been updated to support VC 2005 or later only.
• Removed VC 6 style AppWizard comments from the code.
• Reworked code to use ATL::CHeapPtr for required memory allocations

v1.01 (7 July 2006)

• Updated copyright details
• Updated the code to clean compile on VC 2005
• Addition of CVERSIONINFO_EXT_CLASS and CVERSIONINFO_EXT_API macros to allow the class to be easily added to an extension DLL.
• Optimized CVersionInfo constructor code
• Reviewed all TRACE statements for correctness
• Updated the documentation to use the same style as the web site.

v1.0 (10 April 2000)

• Initial public release.