How to get the product version from a Razor View

Question

I am trying to display my product version in a Razor view (_Layout.cshtml). I´m doing something like this:

<script>
alert('@FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location).ProductVersion');
alert('@Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location');
</script>

The problem is that the first alert showed me 0.0.0.0 then, I introduced the second alert and it shows me the following location:

C:WindowsMicrosoft.NETFramework644.0.30319Temporary ASP.NET Filesoot#35f35b93778aeaApp_Web_ztow0zpu.dll

Obviously this is not my assembly file. Is there any easy and clean way to get the assembly version from a Razor view?

Answer 1

Edited for better answer

I am guessing that it is trying to get the version of the Razor Engine, not your application. So a workaround is to get this info in the controller and send it to the view through a viewbag.

In your controller add -

ViewBag.Version = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version;

In your view add -

<h1>@ViewBag.Version</h1>