Question

I’m trying to access the Version number of my assembly at runtime.

The code I’m using for that requires a FileIOPermission, which I don’t want to grant (I’m in the Internet Zone)

this.GetType().Assembly.GetName().Version; 

Is there another way to access the version number which doesn’t require elevation?

Answer 1

It’s not quite the same version number (It’s the ‘AssemblyFileVersion’ rather than the ‘AssemblyVersion’ attribute) but you can use the following line of code:

System.Windows.Forms.Application.ProductVersion 

That returns a string.

If you’re doing automated builds, then you have to remember to increment both numbers.

Alternatively

If you are doing this as a ClickOnce application, the version number is found in:

System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment.CurrentVersion 

Hope that helps