Setting and viewing Version Information

[jj2007]

Demo on how to add version information to an executable:

include \masm32\MasmBasic\MasmBasic.inc         ; download
  Init
  GetFileProps                         ; no args = current file; use e.g. GetFileProps "Explorer.exe" for others
  For_ ecx=0 To FileProp$(?)-1
        PrintLine At(30) FileProp$(ecx), Cr$, Str$("%_i  ", ecx), FilePropName$(ecx)
  Next
EndOfCode

To add the info itself, go to the end of the source, then click the RichMasm menu AutoCode/Version info, add the missing bits and pieces and hit F6 to build the exe (for a full list, see Version Information at Microsoft). The resource section of the attached project looks as follows (as you can see, Unicode is allowed; some items like #D$, #Y$, #F$, #U$ get substituted at build time):

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#include "resource.h"
IDI_APPLICATION ICON "\\Masm32\\MasmBasic\\icons\\Smiley.ico"
01 RT_MANIFEST "\\Masm32\\MasmBasic\\Res\\XpManifest.xml"
VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
FILETYPE VFT_APP
FILEVERSION 1, 0, 0, 0
PRODUCTVERSION 1, 0, 0, 0
FILEOS VOS__WINDOWS32
BEGIN
  BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
  BEGIN
BLOCK "080904B0"
BEGIN
VALUE "Comments", "Вы можете использовать комментарии на русском или китайском"
VALUE "FileDescription", "Testing #F$"
VALUE "ProductName", "#U$'s Assembly Tools Collection"
VALUE "ProductVersion", "Release version #D$"
VALUE "CompanyName", "MasmBasic"
VALUE "FileVersion", "1.0"
VALUE "InternalName", "Внутреннее имя может быть свободно выбрано"
VALUE "LegalCopyright", "© #Y$ #U$@Masm32"
VALUE "PrivateBuild", "No, it's extremely public"
VALUE "OriginalFilename", "#F$"
VALUE "LegalTrademarks", "No trademarks found"
VALUE "SpecialBuild", "This build is for José Pascoa who loves MasmBasic"
END
  END
  BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
  BEGIN
VALUE "Translation", 0x809, 0x4B0
  END
END

The output of the exe looks like this:

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0  Lang                      080904B0
1  Comments                  Вы можете использовать комментарии на русском или китайском
2  InternalName              Внутреннее имя может быть свободно выбрано
3  ProductName               Jochen's Assembly Tools Collection
4  CompanyName               MasmBasic
5  LegalCopyright            © 2019 Jochen@Masm32
6  ProductVersion            Release version 9 December 2019
7  FileDescription           Testing FilePropsUtf8
8  LegalTrademarks           No trademarks found
9  PrivateBuild              No, it's extremely public
10  FileVersion               1.0
11  OriginalFilename          FilePropsUtf8
12  SpecialBuild              This build is for José Pascoa who loves MasmBasic

Of course, there are more complicated ways to add version info, see e.g. How do I set the version information for an existing .exe, .dll? on SOF