"future version"

got some client files today-- we're still running 2004, and it claims that
the files are from a "future version"--any way to tell whether they're 2005
or 2006 without installing both of them?

 

I don't know if you could tell for sure but considering 2006 was just
released days ago it's most likely they're 2005.

 

Michael,

Why not just ask them


Mark

 

politics

 

newer versions of the viewer do the trick....

In a more general sense though, I'm curious--without opening a file, is
there any way to tell what it was modeled in?

 

That sucks.

Mark

 

Look in the file with a hex editor.

 

I did a very quick hex editor look and didn't find anything. How about
looking with a resource editor? I had a demo copy a while back, but not any
more.

WT

 

I was just poking around in a couple of files - one from 2004 and one
from 2005, and looking at the files, there appear to be differences in
some of the OLE structured storage stream names between versions. 2004
files have two streams, one _DL_VERSION_2500 and another
_MO_VERSION_2500, while 2005 files have streams named _DL_VERSION_2800
and _MO_VERSION_2800, so you could probably look at the stream names to
determine version numbers. I don't know if service packs have any
impact on these stream names. If anyone is interested in a small VBA
program to do this, I could probably cook one up (or a small standalone
app, if that was desired instead). I would need some sample files from
other versions, though, because 2004 and 2005 are all I have access to
at the moment. Also, it would be nice to see if a different service
pack had any impact. If anyone is interested, let me know. Please
don't send me any files to the email attached to this message. If you
are interested, email me and I'll give you another email to send files
to.

Jonathan Anderson