CODEWITHSUNDEEP
c#
keelerjr12
keelerjr12

Reputation: 1903

Get Assembly Version Info

We have a large solution with about 30 projects. We also have some common code utilities and as part of that utility class we have included a GetAssemblyVersionInfo method that returns the version info of that assembly. However, we want to get the Assembly Version Info of the assembly for the project not the utility DLL. Is there any way of having a utility function that returns the version info of another assembly based on execution and not passing around filenames?

EDIT:

For those who are curious, I solved it using:

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetCallingAssembly().GetName().Version

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2904

Answers (2)

SliverNinja - MSFT
SliverNinja - MSFT

Reputation: 31641

If you have the assembly name, you can dynamically load it into the current AppDomain to retrieve the version info.

Assembly.LoadFrom(string.Format("{0}.dll", "assemblyshortname")).GetName().Version

Upvotes: 1

sblom
sblom

Reputation: 27343

I think you should use GetEntryAssembly() instead of GetCallingAssembly().

Upvotes: 0

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