How can I determine my root calling assembly's version number at runtime? (.NET)

Question

Example:

MyProgram.exe is executed. It calls MyClassLibrary1.dll which calls MyClassLibrary2.dll. How can I determine from within MyClassLibrary2.dll what the assembly version of MyProgram.exe is?

Is this possible?

Thanks.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

EDIT My answer will only work if the DLL has a reference to the actually EXE which would be rather odd to do.

Try the following

typeof(SomeTypeInMyProgram).Assembly.GetName().Version

This will return a Version structure that you can use to analyze the version of MyProgram.exe.