Determine VB version of .exe file? 2

[Ed2020]

Hi,

If I have an executable file that was created in Visual Basic (either VB6 or earlier) is it possible to determine which version was used?

TIA,

Ed Metcalfe.

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[HarleyQuinn]

You should be able to right click on the .exe and go to Properties and then go to the Version tab for the information you're after.

Hope this helps

HarleyQuinn
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[Ed2020]

HarletQuinn,

Thanks for your reply.

This tab shows the version number of the application, but I can't see anything pertaining to the version of Visual Basic that was used to create the application. Am I missing something.....?

Ed Metcalfe.

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[HarleyQuinn]

Sorry Ed, I'd mis-understood your question there...

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[SBerthold]

open it with an the Notepad editor, or whatever, and for example do a text search for the VB runtime dll ("MSVBVM60.DLL") or which ever version

 

[Ed2020]

Excellent, thank you! Have a star.

Ed Metcalfe.

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[HarleyQuinn]

Not that I'm complaining but I assume that star was for SBerthold?

HarleyQuinn
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[Ed2020]

Whoopsy! Yes, it was. Still you can have one too for taking the time to respond.

Ed Metcalfe.

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[HarleyQuinn]

Cheers Ed

HarleyQuinn
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[SBerthold]

Thanks. That was a cheap way (Notepad), but you could use something like Depends.Exe (Dependency Walker) and see which Dlls the exe uses (start profiling to see the ones visible only at runtime)

http://www.dependencywalker.com/

 

[Ed2020]

Thanks for the recommendation. I've also used OllyDbg for similar things in the past but I'll take a look at Dependency Walker as well.

Ed Metcalfe.

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