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Version number of my my application.EXE not right...

Updated: 21 May 2010 | 1 comment
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I am having a problem with my applications install .exe file not showing the right filer version when you hover over it.  It's showing me 10.3.0.250 and it should be 5.2.0.0.  I had this problem before on another application and I found a link that said this was a bug and that I needed to go in to my .wse file and then the general info and fill in the info there because it was blank.  So that worked for me on that last application.  On this app however it does not.  I go in to the .wse and change the general info and put in the version number.  I compile it and then go in ot the .wsi with the same filename.  When I compile that, it's wiping out my .wse and when it makes the new one it's not saving that data.  So I went back to my other app and tried it again and it works fine and the version numbers always stays in the .wse.  Does anyone have any ideas what might be going on?  I am a programmer who was giving the install duties after cutbacks happened and they let go of the install guy.  So I am pretty new to this all and after they let our install guy go they had a 3rd party place rewrite all of our apps and now I have to maintain them.  I would appreciate any help.

Thanks

Phil

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EdT's picture
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2009
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Weird

Can I check the sequence of events....
First you create the MSI
Then you compile to EXE
The version number is wrong, so you go back into the EXE configuration, add a dummy pre-requisite so that you can enable the "Edit" button for the Wisescript that eventually compiles into the EXE.
You edit the WSE file to add the version information, then compile to EXE after removing the dummy pre-requisite (assuming you don't have a real pre-req to work with).

If that is still not working, I would suggest creating another project from scratch - even a test project, to see if you can get the version number set to what you need. If the test project works, then the next step would be to rework your current project from scratch.

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