Question

I have an XBAP currently published on my local machine, which has an ‘About’ canvas build into the XMAL, of which I want to show the published version number, but I can only seem to get the assembly version number. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

First make sure you add the following assembly to your project references: System.Deployment. Then you can access the current version like this:

using System.Deployment.Application;

... 

if (ApplicationDeployment.IsNetworkDeployed)
    VersionTextBlock.Text = 
       ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment.CurrentVersion.ToString();

CurrentDeployment is null when you debug locally, so you can use IsNetworkDeployed to only retrieve the version info when you run from the published location.