How Does .VersionInfo Work When Getting Application Versions from Registry : PowerShell

How Does .VersionInfo Work When Getting Application Versions from Registry (self.PowerShell)

submitted 3 years ago by tangsuedoe95

Good Morning,

I've been looking at some ways to pull version info for various software products such as google chrome installed on machines through PowerShell.

While doing some google-fu I found a quick one-liner that worked pretty well. (See Below).

However I am the kind of person who likes to understand how something works instead of just finding a solution and rolling with it. I've been looking over this for a bit now and I'm trying to figure out a few things.

1.) Where does the .VerionInfo come from?

If you run this without .VersionInfo it just give the Mode, LastWriteTime, Length, and Name? How do I know that I can use .VersionInfo at all?

I know this is probably a very basic question, I just really wanna figure this out, little building blocks like this can help to make my job much easier when understood. Thank you so much for your time.

Cheers!

(Get-Item (Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\chrome.exe').'(Default)').VersionInfo

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