Getting application version from within application

Question

Is there a simple way of obtaining the application version information from the resource file at runtime?

Effectively what I'd like to do is be able to have a "Version X.Y.Z" displayed at runtime without having a separate variable somewhere that I'd have to keep in sync with my ProductVersion and FileVersion.

To clarify: yes this is a standard C++ Windows project. I am aware of the GetFileVersionInfo method but it seems silly to have to open the binary from within the version in memory just to query the version information - I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here :-)

Answer 1

If the OS is Windows, use the GetFileVersionInfo and VerQueryValue functions.