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

First, I think it's more apt to use the assembly's file version info for conveying the application version to the user. See http://techblog.ranjanbanerji.com/post/2008/06/26/Net-Assembly-Vs-File-Versions.aspx

Second, what about doing this:

using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Reflection;

public static class AssemblyExtensions
{
    public static Version GetFileVersion(this Assembly assembly)
    {
        var versionString = assembly.GetCustomAttributes(false)
            .OfType()
            .First()
            .Version;

        return Version.Parse(versionString);
    }
}