Reading Assembly version information of WPF application

c# wpf assemblies version
Muhammad Akhtar picture Muhammad Akhtar · Aug 23, 2010 · Viewed 37.8k times · Source

I am reading version information of my wpf application, but I am not getting the correct version as I have write in AssemblyInfo.cs file. In my file there is

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("0.1.001")]
[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("0.0.001")]

I am reading version information using this code

 System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version.ToString();

I am getting this version 0.1.1.0 and it should be 0.1.001

Thanks

Answer

Eugene Cheverda picture Eugene Cheverda · Aug 23, 2010

The properties Major, Minor, Build and Revision of class Version are of type int, not string. So when string from assembly version is parsed into Version class, the parts of this string will be converted to int representation. Also there are rule that first number of specified version string is Major component of Version:

"1" - 1.0.0.0
"1.2" - 1.2.0.0
"1.2.3" - 1.2.3.0
"1.2.3.4" 1.2.3.4

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