How do I get the current published version in a .NET application?

Question

I want to be able to display the current version of a .NET application that I have deployed using the publish wizard. There is a nice option to automatically update the version number every time I publish my application.

I found another question (Automatically update version number) that had this to get the current version:

Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version 

This gets you the version you set in the project properties, but not the version that is automatically incremented each time you publish.

Answer 1

You can use the following test

if (System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployment.IsNetworkDeployed) {     return System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment.CurrentVersion; } 

to avoid the exception (as detailed in this post).

Also, I don't think you can get the current publish version via Visual Studio debugging because accessing CurrentDeployment will throw an InvalidDeploymentException.