How to get version during runtime

[itavero]

I'm building a console application, using CliFx which uses Assembly.GetEntryAssembly to determine the version of the application.

For some strange reason I can see the right values being filled in if I look into the file properties in Explorer, but the Assembly version does not show the correct value.

The last tag is v0.0.3 (and I have MinVerTagPrefix set to v in the csproj file. MinVer picks this up without any problem:

0>MinVer: Using { Commit: 09ef89a, Tag: 'v0.0.3', Version: 0.0.3, Height: 0 }.
0>MinVer: Calculated version 0.0.3.

However the version being printed by CliFx (and also if I manually access the "entry assembly" from the immediate window during debugging), stays at 0.0.0.0.
I've even added <AssemblyVersion>$(MinVerVersion)</AssemblyVersion> to the PropertyGroup in the csproj file, because I noticed in the README that is states that by default only the major version is reflected in here.

Does anyone have any clue what I'm missing here?

[itavero]

Okay.. my bad. I tried to set the AssemblyVersion in the wrong way.
After adding an additional target as was mentioned in the README (which I totally missed somehow), the AssemblyVersion is updated correctly.

    <Target Name="UpdateAssemblyVersion" AfterTargets="MinVer">
        <PropertyGroup>
            <AssemblyVersion>$(MinVerVersion)</AssemblyVersion>
        </PropertyGroup>
    </Target>

[jbennink]

In my case this did not work. Th generated assemblyinfo.cs tried to set the AssemblyVersion to a pre version. I guess this only works on RTM x.y.z.0 versions:
[assembly: System.Reflection.AssemblyFileVersionAttribute("5.0.1.0")] [assembly: System.Reflection.AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute("5.0.1-pre.0.47")] [assembly: System.Reflection.AssemblyVersionAttribute("5.0.1-pre.0.47")]

[jbennink]

This howerver did work to set the AssemblyVersion

<Target Name="UpdateAssemblyVersion" AfterTargets="MinVer">
  <PropertyGroup>
	  <AssemblyVersion>$(MinVerMajor).$(MinVerMinor).$(MinVerPatch).0</AssemblyVersion>
  </PropertyGroup>
</Target>

[adamralph]

Yes, this is very similar to one of the examples in the FAQ.

[itavero]

Unfortunately for me this also broke and I had to change the AssemblyVersion as shown above by @jbennink.
I wonder, is there a way to get a string representation that I can use in my code that does have the full MinVerVersion (so including the pre-release info and such)?
It would be nice to at least be able to show the full version in the interface of the application.

[adamralph]

@itavero unless you're doing something special, the full version should flow through to AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute.