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

Question

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

Answer 1

You should be able to read the Guid attribute of the assembly via reflection. This will get the GUID for the current assembly

         Assembly asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
        var attribs = (asm.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(GuidAttribute), true));
        Console.WriteLine((attribs[0] as GuidAttribute).Value);

You can replace the GuidAttribute with other attributes as well, if you want to read things like AssemblyTitle, AssemblyVersion etc

You can also load another assembly (Assembly.LoadFrom and all) instead of getting the current assembly - if you need to read these attributes of external assemblies (eg - when loading a plugin)