I'm updating a legacy app and it has some functionality that detects the version of Internet Explorer that's installed, just for display and error reporting not because any components are required. The code used for IE version detection is basically the code from VBnet - DllGetVersion: Detailed Internet Explorer Version Info (Author: Kay-Christian Hansen, VBnet - Randy Birch). Unfortunately this code doesn't detect IE version greater than IE6.
So I'm wondering what the accepted VB6 method of detecting the installed version of Internet Explorer is these days?
Thanks.
Here is a class I use to get file version information:
Option Explicit
'property storage variables
Private m_strCompanyName As String
Private m_strFileDescription As String
Private m_strFileVersion As String
Private m_strInternalName As String
Private m_strCopyright As String
Private m_strOriginalFileName As String
Private m_strProductName As String
Private m_strProductVersion As String
Private m_strPrivateBuild As String
Private m_strSpecialBuild As String
Private m_strComments As String
Private m_strLegalTrademark As String
Private Declare Function GetFileVersionInfo Lib "Version.dll" Alias "GetFileVersionInfoA" (ByVal lptstrFilename As String, ByVal dwhandle As Long, ByVal dwlen As Long, lpData As Any) As Long
Private Declare Function GetFileVersionInfoSize Lib "Version.dll" Alias "GetFileVersionInfoSizeA" (ByVal lptstrFilename As String, lpdwHandle As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetSystemDirectory Lib "Kernel32" Alias "GetSystemDirectoryA" (ByVal Path As String, ByVal cbBytes As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function lstrcpy Lib "Kernel32" Alias "lstrcpyA" (ByVal lpString1 As String, ByVal lpString2 As Long) As Long
Private Declare Sub MoveMemory Lib "Kernel32" Alias "RtlMoveMemory" (dest As Any, ByVal Source As Long, ByVal Length As Long)
Private Declare Function OpenFile Lib "Kernel32" (ByVal lpFileName As String, lpReOpenBuff As OFSTRUCT, ByVal wStyle As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function VerQueryValue Lib "Version.dll" Alias "VerQueryValueA" (pBlock As Any, ByVal lpSubBlock As String, lplpBuffer As Any, puLen As Long) As Long
Private Const OFS_MAXPATHNAME = 128
Private Const OF_EXIST = &H4000
Private Const INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE = -1
Private Type OFSTRUCT
cBytes As Byte
fFixedDisk As Byte
nErrCode As Long
Reserved1 As Long
Reserved2 As Long
szPathName(OFS_MAXPATHNAME) As Byte
End Type
Public Function GetVersionInfo(ByRef lpFile As String) As Boolean
Dim buffer As String
Dim rc As Long
Dim FullFileName As String
Dim sFName As String
Dim lBufferLen As Long
Dim lDummy As Long
On Error GoTo errGetVersionInfo
If FileExists(lpFile) Then
buffer = String(255, 0)
'*** Get size ****
lBufferLen = GetFileVersionInfoSize(lpFile, lDummy)
If lBufferLen 0 Then
Dim bytebuffer(255) As Byte
MoveMemory bytebuffer(0), lVerPointer, lBufferLen
Dim Lang_Charset_String As String
Dim HexNumber As Long
HexNumber = CLng(bytebuffer(2)) + CLng(bytebuffer(3)) * &H100 + _
CLng(bytebuffer(0)) * &H10000 + CLng(bytebuffer(1)) * &H1000000
Lang_Charset_String = Hex(HexNumber)
'now we change the order of the language id and code page
'and convert it into a string representation.
'For example, it may look like 040904E4
'Or to pull it all apart:
'04------ = SUBLANG_ENGLISH_USA
'--09---- = LANG_ENGLISH
' ----04E4 = 1252 = Codepage for Windows:Multilingual
Do While Len(Lang_Charset_String) 0
End If 'lBufferLen INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE Then
FileExists = True
Else
FileExists = False
End If
End Function
Friend Property Get CompanyName() As String
CompanyName = m_strCompanyName
End Property
Private Property Let CompanyName(ByVal vNewValue As String)
m_strCompanyName = Trim$(vNewValue)
End Property
Friend Property Get FileDescription() As String
FileDescription = m_strFileDescription
End Property
Private Property Let FileDescription(ByVal vNewValue As String)
m_strFileDescription = Trim$(vNewValue)
End Property
Friend Property Get FileVersion() As String
FileVersion = m_strFileVersion
End Property
Private Property Let FileVersion(ByVal vNewValue As String)
m_strFileVersion = Trim$(vNewValue)
End Property
Friend Property Get InternalName() As String
InternalName = m_strInternalName
End Property
Private Property Let InternalName(ByVal vNewValue As String)
m_strInternalName = Trim$(vNewValue)
End Property
Friend Property Get Copyright() As String
Copyright = m_strCopyright
End Property
Private Property Let Copyright(ByVal vNewValue As String)
m_strCopyright = Trim$(vNewValue)
End Property
Friend Property Get OriginalFileName() As String
OriginalFileName = m_strOriginalFileName
End Property
Private Property Let OriginalFileName(ByVal vNewValue As String)
m_strOriginalFileName = Trim$(vNewValue)
End Property
Friend Property Get ProductName() As String
ProductName = m_strProductName
End Property
Private Property Let ProductName(ByVal vNewValue As String)
m_strProductName = Trim$(vNewValue)
End Property
Friend Property Get ProductVersion() As String
ProductVersion = m_strProductVersion
End Property
Private Property Let ProductVersion(ByVal vNewValue As String)
m_strProductVersion = Trim$(vNewValue)
End Property
Friend Property Get PrivateBuild() As String
ProductVersion = m_strPrivateBuild
End Property
Private Property Let PrivateBuild(ByVal vNewValue As String)
m_strPrivateBuild = Trim$(vNewValue)
End Property
Friend Property Get SpecialBuild() As String
ProductVersion = m_strSpecialBuild
End Property
Private Property Let SpecialBuild(ByVal vNewValue As String)
m_strSpecialBuild = Trim$(vNewValue)
End Property
Friend Property Get Comments() As String
Comments = m_strComments
End Property
Private Property Let Comments(ByVal vNewValue As String)
m_strComments = vNewValue
End Property
Friend Property Get LegalTrademark() As String
LegalTrademark = m_strLegalTrademark
End Property
Private Property Let LegalTrademark(ByVal vNewValue As String)
m_strLegalTrademark = vNewValue
End Property
These are my results for IE 8.
Company name: Microsoft Corporation
File description: Internet Explorer
Product version: 8.00.6001.18702 (longhorn_ie8_rtm(wmbla).090308-0339)
Internal name: iexplore
Legal copyright: © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Original file name: IEXPLORE.EXE
Product name: Windows® Internet Explorer
Comments: Windows® Internet Explorer
Trademarks: Windows® Internet Explorer
File version: 8.00.6001.18702 (longhorn_ie8_rtm(wmbla).090308-0339)
Private build:
Special build: