Extracting the Assembly Version in .Net

Posted by OmegaMan at July 16, 2007

Category: How To, Winforms

I like to place the version number of the current application either on the console output or the title bar of the Winform. Using the below method I am able to extract the current assemblies information and return the version info to be displayed.

using System.Reflection;
using System.Diagnostics;


~


// Place in local code


Assembly ass = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();


string version;




if (ass != null)


{


    FileVersionInfo FVI = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(ass.Location);




    version = String.Format("{0} Version ({1:0}.{2:0})",


                  FVI.ProductName,


                  FVI.FileMajorPart.ToString(),


                  FVI.FileMinorPart.ToString());


}


else


{


   version = "Unknown";


}






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				William Jones says (21.01.2014 at 9:55 am):
    
				
    
			
    
			
    
								
    This is really helpful, but I seem to be unable to find the Revision portion of the Assembly version. Am I just missing it, or is it not accessible this way?
    

    Thanks,
    
William Jones
    
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				David Woosley says (30.03.2015 at 11:07 am):
    
				
    
			
    
			
    
								
    Ditto what William said. Revision number?
    
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