how to show publish version in a textbox?

Question

At the moment I am manually updating the version field (textbox) in my application every time I publish it. I am wondering if there is a way to have my applicat

Answer 1

Also we can use overloadedToString of System.Version

using System.Deployment.Application;

public Version AssemblyVersion 
{
    get
    {
        return ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment.CurrentVersion;
    }
}


YourVersionTextBox.Text = AssemblyVersion.ToString(1); // 1 - get only major
YourVersionTextBox.Text = AssemblyVersion.ToString(2); // 1.0 - get only major, minor
YourVersionTextBox.Text = AssemblyVersion.ToString(3); // 1.0.3 - get only major, minor, build
YourVersionTextBox.Text = AssemblyVersion.ToString(4); // 1.0.3.4 - get only major, minor, build, revision

Answer 2

Method 1 : You can use this

string version = Application.ProductVersion;

and show the version in your textBox.

Method 2 : or if you want the version parts separately, you can use this :

System.Version version2 = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version;

now you have these :

version2.Major;
version2.Minor;
version2.Revision;
version2.Build;

and you can use them like this

string versionString= (String.Format("{0}.{1}.{2}.{3}", version2.Major, version2.Minor, version2.Revision, version2.Build));

Answer 3

Try this:

using System.Deployment.Application;

public Version AssemblyVersion 
{
    get
    {
        return ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment.CurrentVersion;
    }
}

Then the caller to the getter property can de-reference the Major, Minor, Build and Revision properties, like this:

YourVersionTextBox.Text = AssemblyVersion.Major.ToString() + "."
                        + AssemblyVersion.Minor.ToString() + "."
                        + AssemblyVersion.Build.ToString() + "."
                        + AssemblyVersion.Revision.ToString();

Answer 4

If you get an error of ApplicationDeployment, then you can try this:

For global version accessing through Program, declare inside Program class:

private static Version version = new Version(Application.ProductVersion);

public static Version Version
{
    get
    {
        return version;
    }
}

Now you have Program.Version anywhere available in the program and you can use it to get version information like this:

LabelVersion.Text = String.Format("Version {0}.{1}",
    Program.Version.Major.ToString(),
    Program.Version.Minor.ToString());

Answer 5

Don't forget to check if the application is networkdeployed otherwise it won't work in debug mode.

if (ApplicationDeployment.IsNetworkDeployed)
{
    this.Text = string.Format("Your application name - v{0}",
        ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment.CurrentVersion.ToString(4));
}