retrieving executable information

Question

When you right-click an .exe file, you can see various details, such as file description.

I'm looking for way to retrieve that data programmatically (preferably, from C#).

(Program's name, program's description, Vendor's name, Vendor's site etc)

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Very similar to this post : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/220097/read-write-extended-file-properties-c. You could probably find some ideas there — Thomas Levesque, Jun 12 '09 at 10:31
(@all: I'm not 100% sure they are the same thing, but if you want me to merge these two questions, please let me know) — Marc Gravell, Jun 12 '09 at 10:45

score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 12 '09 at 10:28

You can get a lot (but not all) of this via FileVersionInfo:

    FileVersionInfo fvi = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(path);
    string company = fvi.CompanyName;
    string productName = fvi.ProductName;
    string productVer = fvi.ProductVersion;
    // etc

retrieving executable information

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