INF: VxDs Do Not Support Version Information Resources

ID Number: Q83658

3.10

WINDOWS

Summary:

Version 3.1 of the Microsoft Windows Software Development Kit (SDK)

and of the Microsoft Windows Device Driver Kit (DDK, formerly termed

the Device Development Kit) do not support placing a version-

information resource into a virtual device (VxD) file. However, the

device descriptor block (DDB) stores some version information. For

more information on the DDB, see the VxD_Desc_Block data structure in

the VMM.INC file.

A version-information resource contains data to identify the version,

language, and distribution of the application, dynamic-link library

(DLL), driver, or device containing the resource. The Windows Resource

Compiler binds a version resource to a file that has the Windows (new-

style) executable-file header.

Because VxD files do not have the new-style header, a VxD file cannot

contain a version resource.

Additional reference words: 3.10