Thread: Portable Version Resource

Is there a way to save and load version info in an exe file in a portable way?

[EDIT]Setting version info once in built time and reading them in run time.
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Does adding version resource in Visual Studio make it not portable?

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I can add a version resource to my project in VC++ and reading that info using Win32 API. But what if I don't want to use Win32 on this matter?

Originally Posted by siavoshkc

Is there a way to save and load version info in an exe file in a portable way?

Does adding version resource in Visual Studio make it not portable?

You mean, you want to be able to alter the version information in an already-built program?

There have been discussions here in the past about how to embed information into a program file that can be read and written after the fact, in a portable way. Mostly, it involves declaring a character array of sufficient size, prefixed by some kind of marker bytes that allows a resource tool to locate the array inside the executable.

You mean, you want to be able to alter the version information in an already-built program?

No, I mean just setting them once in built time and reading them in run time.