Getting runtime version of a Silverlight assembly

Question

I want to show my Silverlight 3 application's version number in the about box, but when I use a traditional .Net call like:

Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version;

I get a MethodAccessException on the GetName() call. How am I supposed to get the version number of my assembly?

Answer 1

private static Version ParseVersionNumber(Assembly assembly)
{
    AssemblyName assemblyName = new AssemblyName(assembly.FullName);
    return assemblyName.Version;
}

or this:

Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); 
String version = assembly.FullName.Split(',')[1];
String fullversion = version.Split('=')[1]; 

From: http://betaforums.silverlight.net/forums/p/128861/288595.aspx

a post about it:

http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/93400/214554.aspx

You can look at the js file I posted here: Detect Silverlight version required by an assembly

Your error is expected.as it is secutiry critical, above are some work arounds.