Question

I’m developing a library that tries to get the version number of the application that uses it.

In my test application, when the lib is reading the version number using :

Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().FullName;

I’m getting the version number of the lib, not the main project.

Is there a simple way to find the version number of the main application, and not the one of my library ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You can use Application.Current to access the application instance that started the application:

Application.Current.GetType().FullName

Having said that, I don’t think have the version number that applies to the application as a whole. For that you’ll need to open the WMAppManifest.xml file and read the version from that. You can get access to the manifest file using:

var manifestUri = new Uri("WMAppManifest.xml", UriKind.Relative);
Stream manifestStream = Application.GetResourceStream(manifestUri);