Project/App information

[Water Cooler v2]

In VB6, we had this

App.Version
App.Title

and stuff. How do I get the same in VB.NET? I guess it'll be coming from some assembly manifest or something and it'd have something to do with reflection, but I am lost. Kind help.

[kleinma]

application.productversion
application.productname

[ntg]

Try the 101 examples, I think they all have an about form that does the VB6 equivalent things.

Cheers,
NTG

[Water Cooler v2]

application.productversion
application.productname

There's no application object in VS.NET 2003 as far as I am aware. Please elaborate. I might be missing something.

[Water Cooler v2]

OK, sorry! I must amplify my question. The project type I am coding is SharedAdd-in which is a COMAddin for ms outlook. So there's no application object there that represents my project (and not the outlook application object). It's (my project) a dll.

Help, please.

[kleinma]

I don't think it is available in class libraries, since they are technically not applications but they support applications... but it is no doubt there in a regular windows application (probably console too.. i didnt check)

so where are you trying to use this code...

[Edneeis]

The full namespace of the Application object is System.Windows.Forms.Application so to access it in a Class Library you would need to import that namespace AND make a reference to System.Windows.Forms or just make a reference AND use the fully qualified name all the time.

[kleinma]

seeing that the AssemblyInfo.vb file contains what you are looking for.. couldn't you use reflection to get the values out of the assembly manifest?