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Sasha
Sasha

Reputation:

How can I programmatically obtain the version of Visual Studio my application was built with?

How can I programmatically (C#) obtain the version of Visual Studio my application was built with?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 413

Answers (5)

Dave Kerr
Dave Kerr

Reputation: 5297

I can categorically tell you that for a standard assembly, this is not possible. There is nothing that visual studio embeds in any of the metadata that gives you this information. So unfortunately this is not possible - the best you can do is make an educated guess (e.g. if it targets .NET framework 4.0 then it's probably Visual Studio 10). However, it's not just Visual Studio that can build managed code.

What's the reason behind this? If we understand the core task there may be alternatives.

Upvotes: 0

Jon
Jon

Reputation: 421

You could add a new appSettings key in your web.config, and then manually update the value as developers take over in the future.

The .csproj file contains meta data that you could query from.

Upvotes: 1

Coding Monkey
Coding Monkey

Reputation: 1000

You can build your application with other tools such as MSBuild. In some larger working environments the F5 build and run is disabled and have much more complext build systems.

I don't think it is possible to tell which version other than the .net version which is requiured.

Upvotes: 0

Aaron
Aaron

Reputation: 7541

System.Environment.Version gives you the .NET version you are using...I know it's not what you asked for, but something interesting.

Upvotes: 0

Otávio Décio
Otávio Décio

Reputation: 74270

Looking at the compiled assembly there is no way you can differentiate between one built with a command line csc or built with visual studio.

Upvotes: 6

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