This is a simple class to get information of the main application. It doesn’t matter if you call this class from an assembly or from the application itself.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Reflection;
namespace VPKSoft.Utils
{
/// <summary>
/// Provides information of the entry assembly (the main application).
/// </summary>
public class MainAppInfo
{
/// <summary>
/// A static reference to the entry assembly.
/// </summary>
public static readonly Assembly EntryAssembly = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly();
/// <summary>
/// Gets the version of the entry assembly.
/// </summary>
public static Version Version
{
get
{
return EntryAssembly.GetName().Version;
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets the version of the entry assembly as string.
/// </summary>
public static string VersionString
{
get
{
return EntryAssembly.GetName().Version.ToString();
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets the name of the entry assembly.
/// </summary>
public static string Name
{
get
{
return EntryAssembly.GetName().Name;
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets the title of the entry assembly.
/// </summary>
public static string Title
{
get
{
object[] attributes = EntryAssembly.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(AssemblyTitleAttribute), false);
if (attributes.Length > 0)
{
AssemblyTitleAttribute titleAttribute = (AssemblyTitleAttribute)attributes[0];
if (titleAttribute.Title != string.Empty)
{
return titleAttribute.Title;
}
}
return System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(EntryAssembly.CodeBase);
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets the description of the entry assembly.
/// </summary>
public static string Description
{
get
{
object[] attributes = EntryAssembly.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(AssemblyDescriptionAttribute), false);
if (attributes.Length == 0)
{
return string.Empty;
}
return ((AssemblyDescriptionAttribute)attributes[0]).Description;
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets the product name of the entry assembly.
/// </summary>
public static string Product
{
get
{
object[] attributes = EntryAssembly.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(AssemblyProductAttribute), false);
if (attributes.Length == 0)
{
return string.Empty;
}
return ((AssemblyProductAttribute)attributes[0]).Product;
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets the copyright string of the entry assembly.
/// </summary>
public static string Copyright
{
get
{
object[] attributes = EntryAssembly.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(AssemblyCopyrightAttribute), false);
if (attributes.Length == 0)
{
return string.Empty;
}
return ((AssemblyCopyrightAttribute)attributes[0]).Copyright;
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Gets the company of the entry assembly.
/// </summary>
public static string Company
{
get
{
object[] attributes = EntryAssembly.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(AssemblyCompanyAttribute), false);
if (attributes.Length == 0)
{
return string.Empty;
}
return ((AssemblyCompanyAttribute)attributes[0]).Company;
}
}
}
}