Question

I have a GUID in my assembly information that is auto created when the project is created.
The current system requires a matching GUID on the database so it can identify the solution.

(Yeah, it’s VB.net)

 <Assembly: Guid("43aca7cb-9360-4642-adc5-6d29b4732bed")> 

What I’m doing is manually copying this GUID into the webconfig as a Setting for the solution, which adds it to the Settings.Designer.vb file.

Ala

  <setting name="ApplicationId" serializeAs="String">
    <value>43aca7cb-9360-4642-adc5-6d29b4732bed</value>
  </setting>

From there it get’s passed on to the database or wherever. It’s not much hassle to do this, and the GUID shouldn’t ever change, but I can’t help but think it would be tidier if I didn’t have to copy the GUID string in each Solution, but had something that referenced the Assembly value directly.

Is this possible?

Thanks for any info.

Answer 1

Something like:

 var assemblyName = "System"; // assembly to get the guid

 var assembly = AppDomain.CurrentDomain
        .GetAssemblies()
        .FirstOrDefault(a => a.GetName().Name == assemblyName);

 var attr = assembly
        .GetCustomAttributes(false)
        .OfType<GuidAttribute>()
        .FirstOrDefault();

 var guid = attr.Value;

But IMO seems better to keep the guid in the web.config, because it is “hard coded” there.