Compare FileVersionInfo GetVersionInfo to a double

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Hi everyone!

I am having trouble converting the FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo number to a double. I need to compare it to a number to alert the user that the 3rd party program is out of date.

Here is what I have so far:

FileVersionInfo psVersionInfo = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(process);
// This will get the version of the program.

I've tried Convert.ToDouble(psVersionInfo) and that doesn't work. The version number is in the form of "6.6.54".

Can someone shed some light as to what I'm missing?

Thanks everyone!

Posted 26-Mar-13 9:32am

joshrduncan2012

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Prasad Khandekar 26-Mar-13 15:44pm

It's not really a number. If you want to compare remove all dots and then convert it into double.

Steve Wellens 26-Mar-13 15:47pm

Even if it was a double (and it's not) comparing doubles requires tolerance handling because 1.000000000000 does not equal 1.00000000000001 (even though they are practically the same number).

André Kraak 26-Mar-13 15:47pm

What is this number you want to compare the FileVersionInfo with?
How did you get it?

joshrduncan2012 26-Mar-13 15:51pm

The 6.6.54 is the current build of the program we want to check for up-to-date.

joshrduncan2012 26-Mar-13 15:52pm

I wanted to compare it with like 6.6.52 (or something like that).

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Garth J Lancaster · Answer 1 · 2013-03-26T10:52:00

Solution 3

Have a look at Darren Kopp's answer, here ... http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30494/compare-version-identifiers[^]

'g'

Posted 26-Mar-13 10:52am

Garth J Lancaster

Maxim Kartavenkov · Answer 2 · 2013-03-26T18:26:00

Better converting not to double but to DWORD or ULONGLONG (in .NET it uint and ulong).
And make high version part to be at high bit order so you can compare that 2 numbers only.
In .NET it will looks:

C#

public uint GetVersion(string _version)
{
    uint uiVersion = 0;
    string[] aVersion = _version.Split('.');
    for (int i = 0; i < aVersion.Length; i++)
    {
        uiVersion += (uint.Parse(aVersion[i]) << (8 * (aVersion.Length - i - 1)));
    }
    return uiVersion;
}

And the usage:

C#

uint uiVersion1 = GetVersion("6.2.54");
uint uiVersion2 = GetVersion("6.2.52");
if (uiVersion1 > uiVersion2)
{
    // First version higher
}
if (uiVersion1 < uiVersion2)
{
    // Second version higher
}
if (uiVersion1 == uiVersion2)
{
    // Versions are equals
}

Regards,
Maxim.

jsolutions_uk · Answer 3 · 2013-03-26T09:51:00

Solution 1

As far as I am aware a FileVersionInfo cannot be converted to a double that simply. The ToString() method will return an incorrect format. Trying to parse it using Double.Parse("6.6.54") will throw an exception, which is basically what Convert.ToDouble() will try and do.

Posted 26-Mar-13 9:51am

jsolutions_uk

André Kraak · Answer 4 · 2013-03-26T10:03:00

If you want to compare two version numbers the most robust way would be to compare each part of the number separately.

The version is build up like this:

Quote FileVersionInfo.ProductVersion Property[^]:
Typically, a version number is displayed as "major number.minor number.build number.private part number". A product version number is a 64-bit number that holds the version number as follows:

The first 16 bits are the ProductMajorPart[^] number.
The next 16 bits are the ProductMinorPart[^] number.
The third set of 16 bits are the ProductBuildPart[^] number.
The last 16 bits are the ProductPrivatePart[^] number.

So if the ProductMajorPart[^] is smaller the version is older, but if it is the same you should continue to check the ProductMinorPart[^], etc.

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