How can I get the full publish version of a .NET (not framework) ClickOnce assembly at runtime in C#

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I can't seem to find a way to grab the ClickOnce publish version of a .NET (not Framework) WPF app. I can get the the publish version from the assembly but that's a hard coded value that gets set in the project's .csproj.

I need the auto-incremented publish version from the ClickOnce at runtime in C#.

In .NET Framework I could do the following:

            ApplicationDeployment AD = ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment;
            PublishVersion = AD.CurrentVersion.ToString();

I can't find anything analagous in .NET

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 13 '21 at 14:39

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Looks like it doesn't exist in .net core or .NET 5(though it might get ported), but this might offer what you need -> https://github.com/derskythe/WpfSettings

answered Jul 13 '21 at 14:39

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Whoa! OK. Not pretty (but pretty clever). Let me see if I can make that work. Thx – Intensivist Jul 13 '21 at 15:03

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 17 '23 at 14:50

Based on this answer it is as easy as

string versionString = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("ClickOnce_CurrentVersion") ?? "0.0.0.0";
Version version= Version.Parse(versionString);
MessageBox.Show(version.ToString());

I haven't tried it, but came across this issue and read literally 5 seconds before the answer given by @NineBerry and thus thought to link it here.

How can I get the full publish version of a .NET (not framework) ClickOnce assembly at runtime in C#

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