How to get .exe file version number from file path

c#-4.0, fileversioninfo, version

Solution

You can use FileVersionInfo.FileVersion to fetch this from a path.

var versionInfo = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(pathToExe);
string version = versionInfo.FileVersion; // Will typically return "1.0.0.0" in your case

Problem

I am using .Net 3.5/4.0 with code in C#. I am trying to get a version number of an exe file on my C: drive. For example path is: c:\Program\demo.exe. If the version number of demo.exe is 1.0. How can i use this path to grab version number?.

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