Getting at information entered in Assembly Information dialog

Question

In the Properties for a given WPF application (C#), one can enter the Title, Description, Company, Product, etc. in the Assembly Information dialog (Properties --> Application --> "Assembly Information..." ).

...but how can I read it at runtime?

there doesn't seem to be a straightforward way to get at that information, unless I'm missing something.

thanks!

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evan k. stone / sr. ux developer / dragnet solutions, inc.

Answer 1

anything you enter inside Assemblyinformation dialog sits in the AssemblyInfo.cs

You can access these values using Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly.GetCustomAttributes(true/false);

If you print the types of attributes returned, you can see something like shown below.

System.Windows.ThemeInfoAttribute

System.Diagnostics.DebuggableAttribute

System.Runtime.CompilerServices.CompilationRelaxationsAttribute

System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComVisibleAttribute

System.Reflection.AssemblyFileVersionAttribute

System.Runtime.CompilerServices.RuntimeCompatibilityAttribute

System.Reflection.AssemblyTitleAttribute

System.Reflection.AssemblyDescriptionAttribute

System.Reflection.AssemblyConfigurationAttribute

System.Reflection.AssemblyCompanyAttribute

System.Reflection.AssemblyProductAttribute

System.Reflection.AssemblyCopyrightAttribute

System.Reflection.AssemblyTrademarkAttribute

So if you want to access the Description entered in the Assembly, you can do something like this.

    foreach (object o in Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetCustomAttributes(true))

            {

                if (o is AssemblyDescriptionAttribute) Debug.WriteLine((o as AssemblyDescriptionAttribute).Description);

            }

That is just an example.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Thanks! I've implemented it already and it works perfectly!

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evan k. stone / sr. ux developer / dragnet solutions, inc.