Version resource in DLL not visible with right-click

Question

I'm trying to do something which is very easy to do in the regular MSVC, but not supported easily in VC++ Express.

There is no resource editor in VC++ Express. So I added a file named version.rc into my DLL project. The file has the below content, which is compiled by the resource compiler and added to the final DLL. This resource is viewable in the DLL using reshacker, though not when right-clicking the DLL in Windows Explorer.

What is missing from my RC file to make it appear when right-clicking?

VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
 FILEVERSION 1,0,0,1
 PRODUCTVERSION 1,0,0,1
 FILEFLAGSMASK 0x17L
#ifdef _DEBUG
 FILEFLAGS 0x1L
#else
 FILEFLAGS 0x0L
#endif
 FILEOS 0x4L
 FILETYPE 0x1L
 FILESUBTYPE 0x0L
BEGIN
    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
    BEGIN
        BLOCK "040904b0"
        BEGIN
            VALUE "FileDescription", "something Application"
            VALUE "FileVersion", "1, 0, 0, 1"
            VALUE "InternalName", "something"
            VALUE "LegalCopyright", "Copyright (C) 2008 Somebody"
            VALUE "OriginalFilename", "something.exe"
            VALUE "ProductName", "something Application"
            VALUE "ProductVersion", "1, 0, 0, 1"
        END
    END
    BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
    BEGIN
        VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1200
    END
END

Answer 1

The correct solution is to add to the top of your .rc file:

#include <windows.h>