Visual Basic 2015 Unleashed

Retrieving Assembly Information

My.Application maps the same-named tab within My Project. Because of this, it provides the ability of investigating in-code assemblies’ information. This can be accomplished via the My.Application.Info property (of type Microsoft.VisualBasic.ApplicationServices.AssemblyInfo) that retrieves information about the current assembly, such as the name, version, company name, copyright, and so on. The following code shows how you can accomplish this:

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'Assembly informationConsole.WriteLine("Assembly name: {0}",                  My.Application.Info.AssemblyName)Console.WriteLine("Assembly version: {0}",                  My.Application.Info.Version)Console.WriteLine("Company name: {0}",                  My.Application.Info.CompanyName) ...