Getting setup version in asp.net website project

Question

Hi guys,

I have an ASP.NET project that contains a Web Deployment project (to compile the website) and a Setup project (that creates the Setup and install the compiled version of the website).

I always change the application version on the Setup Project and I want to be able to reference that version number into the Website itself but without creating an entry in the web.config with the version number (not today, but I think that in the future I will forgot to change the version number in the web.config)

Is there any trick that I can use to get this behaviour?

Just like using the App.Config in WinForms using just:

Version vrs = new Version(Application.ProductVersion);
myVersionLabel.Text = "Major: " + vrs.Major + " Minor: " + vrs.Minor;

Answer 1

You can always do a custom action that writes/updated the setup version to your web.config. No worries about forgetting to do that manually. EDIT: I made a blog post about how to do this. Take a look here.