I developed this function based on some WIN SDK document; it retrieves all version infos stored inside an .exe file. On my CVI2017 install it gives "17.0.0.295" (build number should be the last field): is this what you are looking for?
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// Funzione VersioneFile
//
//--------------------------------------------------------------------------
/// HIFN VersioneFile
/// HIFN Function to retriev version info stored inside an .exe file
/// HIRET Error code - '0' if no error detected
/// HIPAR file/pathname of the program to elaborate
/// HIPAR versione/String where to tore informations retrieved
int CVIFUNC ET_VersioneFile (char *file, char *versione)
{
void* tempBuffer = NULL;
void* versionInfo = NULL;
int line, error = 0;
char langName[16];
UINT len;
DWORD infoSize;
DWORD uselessParm;
DWORD* tempDWORD;
if ((infoSize = GetFileVersionInfoSize (file, &uselessParm))) {
nullChk (versionInfo = malloc (infoSize));
if (!GetFileVersionInfo (file, 0, infoSize, versionInfo))
goto Error;
/* Get the Language and Code Page */
/* The below 'hex' value looks a little confusing, but essentially */
/* it is the hexidecimal representation of a couple different values */
/* that represent the language and character set that we are wanting */
/* string values for. 040904E4 is very common, it means: */
/* US English, Windows MultiLingual characterset -- or: */
/* 04------ = SUBLANG_ENGLISH_USA */
/* --09---- = LANG_ENGLISH */
/* --11---- = LANG_JAPANESE */
/* ----04E4 = 1252 = Codepage for Windows:Multilingual */
if (VerQueryValue (versionInfo, TEXT("\\VarFileInfo\\Translation"),
((void **)(&tempDWORD)), &len)) {
/* lVerPointer is a pointer to four 4 bytes of Hex number, first two */
/* bytes are language id, and last two bytes are code page. However, */
/* Lang_Charset_String needs a string of 4 hex digits, the first two */
/* characters correspond to the language id and last two the last two*/
/* character correspond to the code page id. */
langName[0] = 0;
sprintf (langName, "%04hX%04hX", LOWORD (*tempDWORD),
HIWORD (*tempDWORD));
if (langName[0]) {
sprintf (file, "\\StringFileInfo\\%s\\ProductVersion", langName);
if (!VerQueryValue (versionInfo, TEXT (file), &tempBuffer, &len) == 0)
if (tempBuffer)
strcpy (versione, (char *)tempBuffer);
}
}
}
Error:
if (versionInfo) free (versionInfo);
return error;
}
