BETA Version of app

[Cyb3rH4Xter]

What's the best way to store that the app is beta?
You can't enter letters in the assembly info version (a "b" would be great).
So is a setting who is set to Beta = True the best? I don't want to hardcode it, I want it to be at one place in the program.

[kebo]

not saying its the best way, but I have a My.Settings.ReleaseLevel value, that progress from "Alpha" to "Beta" then on the final release it is simple blank.
kevin

[Cyb3rH4Xter]

okay thx.

[jmcilhinney]

In the Solution Explorer, click the Show All Files button, expand the My Project node and then open the AssemblyInfo.vb file. At the bottom you will see the AssemblyVersion and AssemblyFileVersion attributes, which are the values you can set in the project properties. Below that, add another entry for the AssemblyInformationalVersion, e.g.

<Assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.0")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("1.0.0.0")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyInformationalVersion("1.0.0.0 beta")>

Now, in code, the Application.ProductVersion property will return that informational version. If the informational version is not found then it will return the file version. If that's not found it will return the assembly version.

[Cyb3rH4Xter]

oh thats great

[Cyb3rH4Xter]

How can I acess the AssemblyVersion now if I use the informationalversion?

[jmcilhinney]

Blah, blah, blah read the documentation blah, blah blah. This is from the documentation for the AssemblyVersionAttribute:

To get the name of an assembly you have loaded, call GetName on the assembly to get an AssemblyName, and then get the Version property.

Assembly.GetEntryAssembly will get an Assembly object for your EXE.

[jmcilhinney]

Just tested and My.Application.Info.Version will give you the AssemblyVersion value regardless.

[Cyb3rH4Xter]

thx