Fetch Magic Version

Dec 5, 2007

Hello guys,

While I am on the topic of patching and updating, is there a way to determine

what version and service pack of eDeverloper is installed, from within an

eDeveloper application? Maybe with a COM call or something?

Thank you,

---Jaco

Jaco,

Use from get.dll "UDF('get.get_version')"

Regards,

Jeroen Bos

Hmmm. No version information on the eDeveloper exe's etc. So, this is not going

to work. :/

Jaco van Tonder

We had a similar requirement to check what version and SP was been run. Below is

the solution MSE provided.

The new functionality is that now you can type 'mggenw version >file' or 'mgrntw

version >file' and receive the output inside that file, so the information is

later available for you.

Regards,

Dave

Unfortunately it seems this feature was dropped from eDev 10. Entering

"eDevRTE version" or "eDevStudio version" at a command prompt returns

nothing at all.

Andy

You have to use it as follows "edevstudio.exe version > filename" or

"edevrte.exe version > filename"

Ah, sure enough. There is a behavior change, though -- in v9, "mggenw.exe

version" opens a dialog displaying the version information. In V10,

"edevstudio.exe version" doesn't do anything.

Andy

Its imo better to take the MD5 hash or so anyway.

That you would then lookup in a database or hardcode for comparisons in your

installation program.

A hash you can always calculate - no matter if .exe, .dll, .ini, ...

Best regards,

Andreas.

The hashes are good.

In my opinion this will probably be the best way to go, because you can verify

the version as well as file integrity in one go. :)

Thanks for bringing this up Andreas, not sure why this slipped my mind. :)

---Jaco