4.1 Version Resources

Version resources are used to record the version of the application using the resource file. Version resources contain a fixed amount of information. The structure of the version resource is as follows:

typedef struct tagVS_FIXEDFILEINFO {
   DWORD     dwSignature;         // e.g. 0xfeef04bd
   DWORD     dwStrucVersion;      // e.g. 0x00000042 = "0.42"
   DWORD     dwFileVersionMS;     // e.g. 0x00030075 = "3.75"
   DWORD     dwFileVersionLS;     // e.g. 0x00000031 = "0.31"
   DWORD     dwProductVersionMS;  // e.g. 0x00030010 = "3.10"
   DWORD     dwProductVersionLS;  // e.g. 0x00000031 = "0.31"
   DWORD     dwFileFlagsMask;     // = 0x3F for version "0.42"
   DWORD     dwFileFlags;         // e.g. VFF_DEBUG | VFF_PRERELEASE
   DWORD     dwFileOS;            // e.g. VOS_DOS_WINDOWS16
   DWORD     dwFileType;          // e.g. VFT_DRIVER
   DWORD     dwFileSubtype;       // e.g. VFT2_DRV_KEYBOARD
   DWORD     dwFileDateMS;        // e.g. 0
   DWORD     dwFileDateLS;        // e.g. 0
   } VS_FIXEDFILEINFO;