OSVERSIONINFO

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Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3

4/8/2010

This structure contains OS version information. The information includes major and minor version numbers, a build number, a platform identifier, and descriptive text about the OS. This structure is used with the GetVersionEx function.

Syntax

typedef struct _OSVERSIONINFO{
  DWORD dwOSVersionInfoSize;
  DWORD dwMajorVersion;
  DWORD dwMinorVersion;
  DWORD dwBuildNumber;
  DWORD dwPlatformId;
  TCHAR szCSDVersion[128];
} OSVERSIONINFO;

Members

• dwOSVersionInfoSize
  Size, in bytes, of this data structure. Set this member to sizeof(OSVERSIONINFO) before calling the GetVersionEx function.

• dwMajorVersion
  Major version number of the OS. For example, for Windows CE 2.10, the major version number is 2.

• dwMinorVersion
  Minor version number of the OS. For example, for Windows CE 2.10, the minor version number is 1.

• dwBuildNumber
  Build number of the OS or is set to 0.

• dwPlatformId
  OS. The following table shows the possible values for this member.

  Value	Description
  VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_CE	Specifies the Windows Embedded CE OS.
  VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_NT	Specifies the Windows NT OS.
  VER_PLATFORM_WIN32_WINDOWS	Specifies the Windows 95 or Windows 98 OS. For Windows 95, dwMinorVersion is zero. For Windows 98, dwMinorVersion is greater than zero.
  VER_PLATFORM_WIN32s	Specifies the Windows 3.1 OS.

• szCSDVersion
  Null-terminated string that provides arbitrary additional information about the OS.

Requirements

See Also

Reference

System Management Structures
GetVersionEx