Retrieving Version of IE

[matze42]

Hi there,

i'm looking for a way to retrieve the current version of the Internet Explorer
from a CHtmlView ( or from other sources ).

Backround is:
I want to use direct printing (without user request ) from a CHtmlView via

MyHtmlView->ExecWB( OLECMDID_PRINT, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER , NULL, NULL );

Curiously this worked until IE-Version 4.0,
didn't work in IE-Version 5.0 ( Here OLECMDID_DONTPROMPTUSER is ignored and the user is prompted ever ),
and now works again since IE-Version 5.5.

Any ideas ?
Thanks in advance,
Matze

[VictorN]

GetFileVersionInfo

[humptydumpty]

yes as VictorN told you you can follow that method.or you can directly read from registry just check in the registry.for each software OS makes entry in registry.so either read from registry or follow that method

or just follow this link it will help you

http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showth...oto=nextoldest

[matze42]

Hi Victor, hi humtpydumpty,

thank you very much for your fast replies.

GetFileVersionInfo is difficult to use, as first i have to find out where IE is installed ( also take into account which language is my win etc. ).

So i used the registry thing. Quite easy in my opinion.

        HKEY hKey;
        char szVersion[ 80 ];
        DWORD dwBufLen = 80;
        LONG lRet;

        if ( RegOpenKeyEx( HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, "Software\\Microsoft\\Internet Explorer",
            0, KEY_QUERY_VALUE, &hKey ) != ERROR_SUCCESS )
        {
            return FALSE;
        }
        
        if ( RegQueryValueEx( hKey, "Version", NULL, NULL,
            (LPBYTE) szVersion, &dwBufLen) != ERROR_SUCCESS )
        {
            return FALSE;
        }
        
        RegCloseKey( hKey );
      
        // Now szVersion should contain the version

Thanks again,
Matze

[humptydumpty]

u welcome