Question

Basically I would like to set AssemblyTitle in my constructor, the reason of doing this is because I have several versions of program and they all sharing same AssemblyInfo.cs

I am looking for something like that

AssemblyTitleAttribute title = "Full Version";

but this one doesn’t work, any ideas?

Answer 1

The attribute is a complie time constant so it cannot be “In the constructor”, you have two options:

1. A class that is unique to the full version has [assembly: AssemblyTitle("Sandbox Console")] (put it before you declare the namespace)
2. Use a #if in the AssemblyInfo.cs to choose the name and set up your build environment to define the directive in your Conditional Compilation Symbols in the Build tab of Properties.

// AssemblyInfo.cs

//(snip)

[assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright ©  2011")]
[assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCulture("")]
#if FULL_VERSION
    [assembly: AssemblyTitle("XYZ App (Full Version)")]
#else
    [assembly: AssemblyTitle("XYZ App (Trial Version)")]
#endif