Accessing assembly attributes?

[Harry J. Smith]

The following set of attributes is always included in file AssemblyInfo.cs:

[assembly: AssemblyTitle("")]
[assembly: AssemblyDescription("")]
[assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCompany("")]
[assembly: AssemblyProduct("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCopyright("")]
[assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCulture("")]
[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]

How can I access their values in my program?

-Harry

 

[Joe Delekto]

Greets,

There are several *Attribute classes for the attributes that can be
applied to the assembly. I used the following sample code to extract the
title from the current executing assembly:

public string GetAppTitle()
{
foreach (object attr in
Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetCustomAttributes(false))
{
AssemblyTitleAttribute aTitle=attr as
AssemblyTitleAttribute;

if (aTitle != null)
{
return aTitle.Title;
}
}
return "";
}

You can use the 'is' keyword to also determine if one of the attributes
is the particular attribute for which you are searching.

Regards,

Joe

 

[Harry J. Smith]

Your comments help a lot, thanks. I am still having problems retrieving
version information. It all works except the version is never retrieved.

My code looks like this:

public static string title;
public static string description;

public static string configuration;

public static string company;

public static string product;

public static string copyright;

public static string trademark;

public static string name1;

public static string name2;

public static string version;



GetAssemblyAttributes();

....

public static void GetAssemblyAttributes()

{

foreach (object attr in
Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetCustomAttributes(false))

{

AssemblyTitleAttribute aTitle=attr as AssemblyTitleAttribute;

if (aTitle != null) title = aTitle.Title;

AssemblyDescriptionAttribute aDescription=attr as
AssemblyDescriptionAttribute;

if (aDescription != null) description = aDescription.Description;


AssemblyConfigurationAttribute aConfiguration=attr as
AssemblyConfigurationAttribute;

if (aConfiguration != null) configuration =
aConfiguration.Configuration;


AssemblyCompanyAttribute aCompany=attr as AssemblyCompanyAttribute;

if (aCompany != null) company = aCompany.Company;


AssemblyProductAttribute aProduct=attr as AssemblyProductAttribute;

if (aProduct != null) product = aProduct.Product;


AssemblyCopyrightAttribute aCopyright=attr as
AssemblyCopyrightAttribute;

if (aCopyright != null) copyright = aCopyright.Copyright;


AssemblyTrademarkAttribute aTrademark=attr as
AssemblyTrademarkAttribute;

if (aTrademark != null) trademark = aTrademark.Trademark;


AssemblyVersionAttribute aVersion=attr as AssemblyVersionAttribute;

if (aVersion != null) version = aVersion.Version;

}

return;

}

Greets,

There are several *Attribute classes for the attributes that can be
applied to the assembly. I used the following sample code to extract the
title from the current executing assembly:

public string GetAppTitle()
{
foreach (object attr in
Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetCustomAttributes(false))
{
AssemblyTitleAttribute aTitle=attr as
AssemblyTitleAttribute;

if (aTitle != null)
{
return aTitle.Title;
}
}
return "";
}

You can use the 'is' keyword to also determine if one of the attributes
is the particular attribute for which you are searching.

Regards,

Joe

The following set of attributes is always included in file AssemblyInfo.cs:

[assembly: AssemblyTitle("")]
[assembly: AssemblyDescription("")]
[assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCompany("")]
[assembly: AssemblyProduct("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCopyright("")]
[assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCulture("")]
[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]

How can I access their values in my program?

-Harry

 

[Joe Delekto]

Greets,

You're right! I did a dump of the names of all the types that were
extracted with the attributes and I didn't see the AssemblyVersionAttribute
in that collection. However, there is an alternate method to get the
version of your currently executing assembly:

Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version


Regards,

Joe

Your comments help a lot, thanks. I am still having problems retrieving
version information. It all works except the version is never retrieved.

My code looks like this:

The following set of attributes is always included in file AssemblyInfo.cs:

[assembly: AssemblyTitle("")]
[assembly: AssemblyDescription("")]
[assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCompany("")]
[assembly: AssemblyProduct("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCopyright("")]
[assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCulture("")]
[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]

How can I access their values in my program?

-Harry

 

[Harry J. Smith]

That made it work, thanks.

My code look like this:

using System;

using System.Reflection; // for Assembly. ...

Version aVersion = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version;

int versionMajor = aVersion.Major;

int versionMinor = aVersion.Minor;

int versionBuild = aVersion.Build;

int versionRevision = aVersion.Revision;

string version = aVersion.ToString();


-Harry

Greets,

You're right! I did a dump of the names of all the types that were
extracted with the attributes and I didn't see the AssemblyVersionAttribute
in that collection. However, there is an alternate method to get the
version of your currently executing assembly:

Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version


Regards,

Joe

Your comments help a lot, thanks. I am still having problems retrieving
version information. It all works except the version is never retrieved.

My code looks like this:

The following set of attributes is always included in file
AssemblyInfo.cs:

[assembly: AssemblyTitle("")]
[assembly: AssemblyDescription("")]
[assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCompany("")]
[assembly: AssemblyProduct("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCopyright("")]
[assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")]
[assembly: AssemblyCulture("")]
[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]

How can I access their values in my program?

-Harry