How to get app version in Windows Phone?

Question

In C# one can use System.Version.Assembly to get the version of a running app. However this doesn\'t appear to exist in Silverlight for Windows Phone. Is there an alternat

Answer 1

On Phone 7 there is no clean way to get the version. The best thing to do is parse the Full Name (which is the only exposed property) for the version string:

String appVersion = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()
                    .FullName.Split('=')[1].Split(',')[0];