Get assembly version in PCL

Question

I have the following line of code in .NET 4.5 that I am trying to build as Portable Class Library. It\'s purpose is to get assembly version:

this.GetType().A         


        

Answer 1

You are targeting a Silverlight-based platform (Silverlight 4 or higher, Windows Phone before version 8). Those platforms didnt' support the GetName() method. For those platforms, you can define an extension method like this:

public static class AssemblyExtensions
{
    public static AssemblyName GetName(this Assembly assembly)
    {
        return new AssemblyName(assembly.FullName);
    }
}