How to show application version in VS.NET Deployment Project?

Question

I have set up a Deployment Project for my application. The problem is that I want to show application version (eg. MyApplication 1.2.3.1) during installation so the user can

Answer 1

You can get the version number that is set in the executing AssemblyInfo.cs using this code

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version.ToString()

Similarly if you want to get the version number for a specific assembly you can use

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetAssembly([type in my assembly]).GetName().Version.ToString()

You could then change the welcome text automatically at runtime.