Automatically updated version/build numbers: Exposing them programmatically for Help/About...menu item or Panel title

[BugBuster]

We update software often. Sometimes we need to know which version and build a customer is using.

My executable should be able to fetch that number when it starts up and add it to the Help/About... menu item or display it at the top of the Panel.

When building a LabVIEW executable, the build system knows that version/build number.

Let it format those numbers into a string and write it out to a dedicated textfile or add it to the .INI file.

Then when my executable runs, it can fetch and expose that number as needed.

[Jeffrey01]

YES!  I am so suprised the "Version Number" specified in the Application Builder, Version Information Tab, is not accessable from a property node inside LabVIEW.  I want to show the executable version -- set during the build process, programatically.  

Why is this not available as a read-only property???!!!

 

[elset191]

There are VIs you can use to get this number from the executable path.  I'm not at my PC now, or I'd post a link.

[fabric]

C:\Program Files\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2012\vi.lib\Platform\fileVersionInfo.llb\FileVersionInfo.vi

[Darren]

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