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Maximum possible length of FileVersionInfo.FileVersion string on Windows

Sep 12, 2011 See the question and my original answer on StackOverflow

MSDN says it's composed of 4x16-bit numbers. So I would say 5 (max for a short is 65535) * 4 + 3 dots, so a maximum size of 23 characters.