How do I retrieve my Published version?

[thomasbihn]

I am having a difficult time retrieving the Published Version as it appears in my project properties/Publish tab.

The current "Publish Version" is 1.0.0.3, but no matter what I do, I get 1.0.0.0. I'm a newb to C#. I've been searching, but the closest thing I found was a reference to "System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployme nt.CurrentDeployment.CurrentVersion;" which gives me a nice error that the application is not installed.

[ThatThatGuy]

@thomasbihn
what are you trying to achieve..
Are you trying to get the version of the assembly you're referencing..
If so then make sure you've an updated copy of the assembly in your application classpath

[thomasbihn]

@ThatThatGuy
Thanks for the response ThatThatGuy. I found the solution after posting. I'm a total newbie to C# programming. But to answer your question, I believe I am getting the version of the assembly. If you right-click on the project in Solution Explorer and select Properties, a tab shows up with several side tabs. The bottom side-tab is titled "Publish". At the bottom of this section is "Publish Version", which shows Major, Minor, Build, and Revision. Automatically increment revision with each publish is checked. I wanted to show this revision in the caption of the form for the program so if someone has a problem with it, I could determine if they are working with the most recent copy. I thought Application.ProductVersion would do the trick, but it just shows 1.0.0.0. The method I found works, but it wasn't as intuitive as this seemed and doesn't actually show the version when running in debug mode. You have to build it and run the EXE to actually see the revision. The solution was as follows:

            if (System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployment.IsNetworkDeployed)
            {
 
                System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployment ad = System.Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment;
 
                this.Text = this.Text +  "    Version: " + ad.CurrentVersion.ToString();
 
            }
 

What is an "application classpath"? I kept seeing references to "ClickOnce", but haven't seen a reference in Visual Studio 2008 to it. I assume that it is the installation method used when you publish. If this is wrong, please someone correct me.

[Plater]

Click once allows you to control some parts of the "install" for the publish, most imporantly that I have found is the ability to assign security privledges.
For example: I have a piece of software used throughout the company.
I publish this software to a location on a network drive. I wanted the users to be able to "run" the application from the network drive instead of installing it on their PCs. Generally this fails the default security checks(you can adjust them under admin tools->.NET configuration). With click once you can set it up so that those advanced security priveldges are requested: "Do you really wish to run this application" type prompt comes up.
This also has the added bonus of always making sure users have the most updated version everytime they run the software

EDIT: ok nm you found this part out:
Unless you run the application from the published files, you won't get the published version?
I check to see if this boolean is true first: ApplicationDeployment.IsNetworkDeployed;
Then I can access this:
ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment.CurrentVer sion;

[SimonHolzman]

        Dim ourVersion As String
        If My.Application.IsNetworkDeployed Then
            ourVersion = Deployment.Application.ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment.CurrentVersion.ToString()
        Else
            ourVersion = "Testing"
        End If