How to get the running version of Power Point using C++ unmanaged?

Question

I am using C++ unmanaged with Power Point (2003 and 2007).

How do I get the running version of Power Point (2003 or 2007) with IDispatch?

Thanks, any help would be awesome.

Answer 1

I am sorry I was working in another project. I found a simple way to get the version using CComDispatchDriver instance.

CComVariant ccVersion;

//disp is CComDispatchDrive type

disp.GetPropertyByName("Version", ccVersion);

doing that I get ccVersion = "11.0" for 2003 and "12.0" for 2007.

To cast it to string I used CString class:

CString version;

version = CString (V_BSTR(&ccVersion));

Thanks for your help, I hope this can be useful for someone else

Answer 2

Try Version method from Application object.