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On Thu, 2006-30-03 at 15:55 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">In RealLife(tm) MS dlls are not versioned like ours are, so an app has </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">no easy way of knowing which version is installed.</FONT>
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It might help avoid future embarrassment if you learned the technology you bashed. Here's a random URL from Googling "DLL Version": <A HREF="http://www.codeproject.com/file/fileversioninfo.asp">http://www.codeproject.com/file/fileversioninfo.asp</A><BR>
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Note the APIs referenced there:<BR>
<TT>- GetFileVersionInfo()</TT><BR>
<TT>- GetFileVersioninfoSize()</TT><BR>
<TT>- VerQueryValue</TT><BR>
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So, you're absolutely right. There's no way for an app to know which version of a DLL is installed. If it is written by a dullard.
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