In this tip I will discuss how we can get assembly version programmatically from a caller application. This can be done easily by taking help of Reflection. Assembly Class contains a static method called GetAssemblyFullName() which gets the assembly that contains the code that is currently executing.
FullName is a properties under Assembly class which will return the full name of assembly the contains Assembly name, Version , Culture and Public Key Token.
Bellow is the code snippet for a sample assembly where I have created on Static Method Called GetAssemblyVersion.
01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 | public class ClassTest{public ClassTest(){}public static string SampleMethod(){return "Sample Method";}public string GetAssemblyVersion(){return Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().FullName;}} |
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Add the created assembly as reference in a console application ( or any ) and call the GetAssemblyVersion() method as shown in below snippet.
1 2 | ClassTest classTest = new ClassTest();Console.WriteLine(classTest.GetAssemblyVersion()); |
You will get below output
