Cannot get assembly version for footer

Question

I\'m using the automatic build versioning mentioned in this question (not the selected answer but the answer that uses the [assembly: AssemblyVersion(\"1.0.*\")] te

Answer 1

Just as another solution that people may be interested in, I've concocted these helpers to help with this problem:

public static class HtmlHelperExtensions
{
    private static string _CachedCurrentVersionDate;

    /// 

    /// Return the Current Version from the AssemblyInfo.cs file.
    /// 
    public static string CurrentVersion(this HtmlHelper helper)
    {
        try
        {
            var version = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version;
            return version.ToString();
        }
        catch
        {
            return "?.?.?.?";
        }
    }

    public static string CurrentVersionDate(this HtmlHelper helper)
    {
        try
        {
            if (_CachedCurrentVersionDate == null)
            {
                // Ignores concurrency issues - assuming not locking this is faster than 
                // locking it, and we don't care if it's set twice to the same value.
                var version = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version;
                var ticksForDays = TimeSpan.TicksPerDay * version.Build; // days since 1 January 2000
                var ticksForSeconds = TimeSpan.TicksPerSecond * 2 * version.Revision; // seconds since midnight, (multiply by 2 to get original)
                _CachedCurrentVersionDate = new DateTime(2000, 1, 1).Add(new TimeSpan(ticksForDays + ticksForSeconds)).ToString();
            }

            return _CachedCurrentVersionDate;
        }
        catch
        {
            return "Unknown Version Date";
        }
    }
}

This allows consumption as follows in your footer:

Version: <%= Html.CurrentVersion() %> from <%= Html.CurrentVersionDate() %>