Eryk Sun <[email protected]> added the comment:
Note that the following recommendation for getting the system version was
removed in late 2019 [1][2]:
To obtain the full version number for the operating system,
call the GetFileVersionInfo function on one of the system
DLLs, such as Kernel32.dll, then call VerQueryValue to obtain
the \\StringFileInfo\\\\ProductVersion subblock of the file
version information.
The first commit added advice to check the "CurrentBuildNumber" registry value
in Windows 10 1909+, but an engineer decided to just remove the paragraph.
Apparently the developers do not want to guarantee that the version information
on any particular system DLL can be used to get the system version. Apparently
they also do not want to officially sanction using the
"CurrentMajorVersionNumber", "CurrentMinorVersionNumber", and
"CurrentBuildNumber" values in the registry.
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[1] https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/win32/pull/143
[2]
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/getting-the-system-version
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