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Why does the VerQueryValue function give me the wrong file version number?

March 15, 2012 Mar 15, 2012 03/15/12

Raymond Chen

A customer was writing a test to verify that their patching system was working properly, but they found that even after the patch was installed, a call to reported that the file was still the original version. Why was the function reporting the wrong version? Recall that the version resource is, well, a resource. And one of the things that ...