How do I find the fully qualified name of an assembly?

inspite picture inspite · Mar 18, 2009 · Viewed 58.8k times · Source

How do I find out the fully qualified name of my assembly such as:

MyNamespace.MyAssembly, version=1.0.3300.0, 
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089

I've managed to get my PublicKeyToken using the sn.exe in the SDK, but I'ld like to easily get the full qualified name.

Answer

David Clarke picture David Clarke · Jul 1, 2013

This is a shameless copy-paste from I Note It Down and is a simple way to get the FQN for the project output:

Open Visual Studio
Go to Tools –> External Tools –> Add
    Title: Get Qualified Assembly Name
    Command: Powershell.exe
    Arguments: -command "[System.Reflection.AssemblyName]::GetAssemblyName(\"$(TargetPath)\").FullName"
    Check "Use Output Window".

The new tool appears under Tools –> Get Qualified Assembly Name. When the menu item is selected, the assembly name is given in the output window.