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Igal
Igal

Reputation: 1124

Showing ClickOnce deployment version on WPF application

I'm deploying now a WPF c# project and want to put the clickonce version (rather than the assembly or product version) on the screen title. I used to do it in Win form application in the following way. But it seems that it is not the way in WPF applications. I searched on Google but didn't find anything. Please help.

    if (System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployment.IsNetworkDeployed)
    {
        ApplicationDeployment ad = ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment;
        lblVer.Text = "V" + ad.CurrentVersion.ToString();
    }
    else
        lblVer.Text = "V" + Application.ProductVersion.ToString();

Upvotes: 14

Views: 10871

Answers (5)

Igal
Igal

Reputation: 1124

OK, I found the problem. I had to add reference to System.Deployment That is why I couldn't use it. This dll is for winforms also.

Upvotes: 3

Doug
Doug

Reputation: 35216

using System;
using System.Deployment.Application;

namespace Utils
{
    public class ClickOnce
    {
        public static Version GetPublishedVersion()
        {
            return ApplicationDeployment.IsNetworkDeployed 
                ? ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment.CurrentVersion 
                : System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version;
        }
    }
}

If you get an error about System.Deployment.Application, then Solution > Project > References > Add Reference > Assemblies > Framework > System.Deployment.

Do not parse the assembly XML for this information; you're relying on undocumented behaviour which simply happens to work 'for now'.

Upvotes: 3

JJS
JJS

Reputation: 6688

This solution is similar to @Engin, but uses XPath.

XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load("...");
XmlNamespaceManager ns = new XmlNamespaceManager(xmlDoc.NameTable);
ns.AddNamespace("asmv1", "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1");
string xPath = "/asmv1:assembly/asmv1:assemblyIdentity/@version";
XmlNode node = xmlDoc.SelectSingleNode(xPath, ns);
string version = node.Value;

Upvotes: 0

Engin Ardıç
Engin Ardıç

Reputation: 2469

Try this:

public static Version GetPublishedVersion()
{
    XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
    Assembly asmCurrent = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
    string executePath = new Uri(asmCurrent.GetName().CodeBase).LocalPath;

    xmlDoc.Load(executePath + ".manifest");
    string retval = string.Empty;
    if (xmlDoc.HasChildNodes)
    {
        retval = xmlDoc.ChildNodes[1].ChildNodes[0].Attributes.GetNamedItem("version").Value.ToString();
    }
    return new Version(retval);
}

Upvotes: 26

Josh
Josh

Reputation: 69282

What error do you get? There's no difference in the ClickOnce API's between Windows Forms and WPF. It is not dependent upon any UI framework.

Did you remember to add a reference to System.Deployment.dll?

Upvotes: 6

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