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DaveDev
DaveDev

Reputation: 42175

How to get the version of a Windows Phone 8.1 app in code?

Is it possible to get the version of the app while it's running?

In a Windows desktop application I can get it as follows:

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version;

But GetExecutingAssembly() isn't available in Windows Phone 8.1.

Is there another way?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2380

Answers (2)

auhmaan
auhmaan

Reputation: 726

For some reason, the answer above does not work on my project ( maybe because I'm running Windows Phone 10 and the app being targeted for Windows Phone 8.1 ). Since there is people who might have this error too, I'll leave here the solution I've found for my case.

Type
    type = typeof( App );
TypeInfo
    typeInfo = type.GetTypeInfo();
Assembly
    assembly = typeInfo.Assembly;
AssemblyName
    assemblyName = assembly.GetName();
Version
    version = assemblyName.Version;

String
    versionString = String.Format( "{0}.{1}.{2}.{3}",
        version.Major,
        version.Minor,
        version.Build,
        version.Revision );

Or, in a simplified way:

Version
    version = typeof( App ).GetTypeInfo().Assembly.GetName().Version;

String
    versionString = String.Format( "{0}.{1}.{2}.{3}",
        version.Major,
        version.Minor,
        version.Build,
        version.Revision );

As for an example, while I had [assembly: AssemblyVersion( "0.1.*" )] on my AssemblyInfo.cs, which would generate a Build and Revision numbers for me, with the Package.Current.Id.Version I would get 0.1.0.0 whilst with the method I described above I get 0.1.5918.18756.

Upvotes: 0

DaveDev
DaveDev

Reputation: 42175

This is how:

PackageVersion pv = Package.Current.Id.Version;
Version version = new Version(Package.Current.Id.Version.Major, 
    Package.Current.Id.Version.Minor, 
    Package.Current.Id.Version.Revision, 
    Package.Current.Id.Version.Build);

Upvotes: 20

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