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TAKE 2: Contained description of an EXE file
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Visual FoxPro
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Windows API functions
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Thread ID:
00582794
Message ID:
00582850
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Evan,

The client I'm working for uses Wise InstallManager and I just tried this for kicks and, you're right, AGETFILEVERSION doesn't work on the exe's it creates. I tried in both VFP6 SP5 and VFP7. Humm....


- Brian


>Hi all,
>
>In thread # 581909, Alexander Golovlev attempted to assist me with parsing out the Windows file description contained in an EXE file using the VFP internal AGETFILEVERSION() function.
>
>Unfortunately, it only seems to work about half the time. Many EXE files, which show a Windows description in Explorer/My Computer, can't evidently be seen by the function and it returns 0 with no information in the array.
>
>These files seem to have one common "thread" (pun intended) -- they have all been created with the Wise Installer (at least, the Wise Installation Wizard comes up when I run each one separately). I have *hundreds* of these files for which I need to grab the contained description.
>
>Anybody out there know another way to get this info besides AGETFILEVERSION?
>
>TIA,


VFP6 SP5, VFP8 SP1, VFP 9 SP 1 and Win XP SP 3 (unless otherwise specified)


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