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Aron Sereny

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Feb 20, 2002, 1:26:23 PM2/20/02
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how do use the Resource Editor to edit the EXE header of a non MSVC app?


Adrian Stoica

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Feb 20, 2002, 2:44:27 PM2/20/02
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You don't. You use EDITBIN.

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Aron Sereny

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Feb 20, 2002, 3:00:38 PM2/20/02
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thanks.

I looked at MSDN for help on editbin.exe - it is not helpful

do you know how to change the File version, Description... of an exe on the
/ properties / version tab of the exe ??


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Adrian Stoica

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Feb 20, 2002, 3:30:19 PM2/20/02
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This info will not be in the exe header, it will be in the .rsrc segment.
Try the resource editor that comes with the Platform SDK, or a third party
one.

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Dave Smith

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Feb 20, 2002, 6:01:36 PM2/20/02
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If you open the .exe file from within Visual Studio it will open the
resources of the executable. You can then modify the version resource. When
you close the file, it will prompt you to save the changes. Afterwards you
will see your changed information from the version tab of the file
properties.

Dave Smith

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Aron Sereny

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Feb 21, 2002, 9:04:30 AM2/21/02
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Dave,

What do you mean by open within Visual Studio?
I have MSVC 6 - I tried to open the exe file but I do not see a version tab.
Note, that me exe was created by PowerBuilder.

thanks,
aron


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Andy Sinclair

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Feb 21, 2002, 10:18:07 AM2/21/02
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Aron Sereny wrote:

>do you know how to change the File version, Description... of an exe on the
>/ properties / version tab of the exe ??
>

Take a look at Resource Hacker.
http://rpi.net.au/~ajohnson/resourcehacker

Andy

Sashja

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Feb 23, 2002, 5:20:06 PM2/23/02
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> thanks.
>
> I looked at MSDN for help on editbin.exe - it is not helpful
>
> do you know how to change the File version, Description... of an exe on the
> / properties / version tab of the exe ??
>

You might want to use PE Explorer -- http://www.pe-explorer.com

~~~~~
Sashja

Dave Smith

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Mar 1, 2002, 10:37:40 PM3/1/02
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Aron,

From Visual Studio choose "file open" from the menu and open the .exe file.
This should show you a resource tree view. I don't know if PowerBuilder adds
a version resource. If there isn't one, you can add one while the file is
open in VS.

Dave Smith

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