Please help, I am pretty new at all this.

I am righting a program that automatically updates files on a vendors program to get the product to the lastest version. I want to check the version of the program on the pc before I upgrade the files. the only place I can find the version info of the product is when i right click the exe file and choose properties, then go to the version tab. Can I automactically pull this info into my VB program at runtime?

I was told the info may be in the header of the exe, is this true? If so can anyone tell me how to scan the header of a file and pull it into a vb program. I can not find to much info on the web about these questions.

thanks alot