.net – How to i see the assembly version of a .NET assembly in Windows Vista and newer (WIndows 7, 2008)

In solutions with multiple projects, one thing I've found very helpful is to have all the AssemblyInfo files point to a single project that governs the versioning. So my AssemblyInfos have a line:

[assembly: AssemblyVersion(Foo.StaticVersion.Bar)]

I have a project with a single file that declares the string:

namespace Foo
{
    public static class StaticVersion
    {
         public const string Bar= "3.0.216.0"; // 08/01/2008 17:28:35
    }
}

My automated build process then just changes that string by pulling the most recent version from the database and incrementing the second last number.

I only change the Major build number when the featureset changes dramatically.

I don't change the file version at all.

I've defined the following property as we use this often in unit testing.

public static string AssemblyDirectory
{
    get
    {
        string codeBase = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase;
        UriBuilder uri = new UriBuilder(codeBase);
        string path = Uri.UnescapeDataString(uri.Path);
        return Path.GetDirectoryName(path);
    }
}

The Assembly.Location property sometimes gives you some funny results when using NUnit (where assemblies run from a temporary folder), so I prefer to use CodeBase which gives you the path in URI format, then UriBuild.UnescapeDataString removes the File:// at the beginning, and GetDirectoryName changes it to the normal windows format.