get the copyright property using C#

Question

I'm trying to figure out how to get the copyright property using C#. In Visual Basic, it is as easy as:

lblCopyright.Text = My.Application.Info.Copyright.ToString();

However, this is proving to be very frustrating and difficult in C#. I'm still new to C# and learning so please provide examples if possible.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi,

Here goes a snippet I've found on the web:

private string GetCopyright()
{
	Assembly asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
	object[] obj = asm.GetCustomAttributes(false);
	foreach (object o in obj)
	{
		if (o.GetType() ==  
			typeof(System.Reflection.AssemblyCopyrightAttribute))
                {
                    AssemblyCopyrightAttribute aca = 
			(AssemblyCopyrightAttribute) o;
                    return aca.Copyright;
                }	
	}
        return string.Empty;
}

Make sure you import namespace: System.Reflection

Hope this helps,

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Answer 2

Thank you for your help Rechousa. This was helpful. I noticed though that this method requires using a separate variation of the same method for each attribute in the Assembly CustomAttributes collection. It would really be cool if I could use one method that takes an argument for the attribute I want to retrieve and return the appropriate information. That way I would not have to write a different methods for each attribute I want to retrieve.

Thanks for your help.

Answer 3

There is actually a more elegant way to retrieve these attribute values.

string copyright, version;     
Assembly asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();

copyright = ((AssemblyCopyrightAttribute)asm.GetCustomAttribute(typeof(AssemblyCopyrightAttribute))).Copyright;

version = ((AssemblyFileVersionAttribute)asm.GetCustomAttribute(typeof(AssemblyFileVersionAttribute))).Version;