Re: File Version without GetFileVersionInfo

Joseph M. Newcomer wrote: 
It is a bit more complex than that, and his concern was "going to the file system", which,
guess what, FindResource must do anyway! So his concern is pointless, and shows he is not
thinking clearly about how to solve a trivial problem in a trivial way using a trivial
method, but wants to "improve" on it by somehow bypassing the documented, working
mechanism to implement some ad-hoc mechanism that could break on the next release of the
OS, because of a peculiar idea that "going to the file system" somehow is a Bad Thing.

I always worry about how poorly we are training people when they even consider such issues
worthy of discussion.

I think tnewton really stumbled on something here because it *is* possible to rename currently loaded dll, and place another with the previous name. In this situation GetFileVersionInfo will return invalid data (if the old dll is still loaded).

This could be an issue if you want to update dll on the fly, and you have only restart mechanism available, but not stop/start mechanism. In this case updating must be done with "rename and copy another" routine. In all the other cases the "prize" isn't worth the effort.
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