Link file version in component with IS 'Product Version'
Does anyone know whether it's possible to link the file version of a particular exe file in a component with the 'Product Version' setting under 'General Information'?
When building the release, my goal is to automatically update the product version of the installer package in accordance with the main program exe file which determines of what version the whole installer package currently is, so that I could use this in an IsCmdBld.exe build without any manual intervention.
We don't offer any built-in ways to do this, although it shouldn't be too hard to write a program that would examine the file's version (or get it from a shared source) and pass it as a parameter to iscmdbld.exe. One major thing to note if you go down this path, however, is that Windows Installer treats ProductVersion differently from file versions. In ProductVersion it only examines the first three fields, whereas for file versions it examines all four.
Thanks for your clarification. I'm about to develop a small supporting application that will deliver the missing information to the command line of IsCmdBld.exe in a .bat batch file which will then be executed.
BTW: Could you perhaps also comment on my other post 'Placeholder in Custom Version Properties'?
