Version Information Tools

A set of open source tools that can be used to create and interogate Windows version information from executable and binary resource files.

Includes:

• Version Information Spy
• Version Information Editor
• Version Information Manipulator Library

The programs and library can be downloaded from this site. The latest releases appear as "Featured Downloads" on the right of this page. An archive of all available versions is here.

Source code is maintained in a Subversion repository (see below for more information). Snapshots of the source of various releases can be downloaded as zip files here.

The Tools

Version Information Spy

A program that displays full details of version information from Windows executable and binary resource files.

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Version Information Editor

An editor that can be used to create and edit version information and create resource source files.

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Version Information Manipulator Library

A DLL that contains code to read and write binary version information.

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Code Repository Organisation

The main development tree is contained the the repository's trunk directory. Under that are directories for each of the main projects:

• vibindata for the Version Information Manipulator Library.
• vied for Version Information Editor.
• vis for Version Information Spy.

Snapshots of releases of projects are recorded in the tags directory. Again there are vibindata, vied and vis sub-directories for each project. Under each project directory is a sub-directory containing the source code on each release. These directories are named release-x.x.x where x.x.x is the release version number.

Finally there is a branches directory that may be used for any development outside the trunk.