How do I programmatically get the GUID of an application in .net2.0

c# .net visual-studio-2005 .net-2.0 guid
Nathan picture Nathan · Feb 2, 2009 · Viewed 109k times · Source

I need to access the assembly of my project in C# .NET2.0.

I can see the GUID in the 'Assembly Information' dialog in under project properties, and at the moment I have just copied it to a const in the code. The GUID will never change, so this is not that bad of a solution, but it would be nice to access it directly. Is there a way to do this?

Answer

JaredPar picture JaredPar · Feb 2, 2009

Try the following code. The value you are looking for is stored on a GuidAttribute instance attached to the Assembly

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var assembly = typeof(Program).Assembly;
    var attribute = (GuidAttribute)assembly.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(GuidAttribute),true)[0];
    var id = attribute.Value;
    Console.WriteLine(id);
}

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