ProductName and CompanyName in C#

Question

In VB.Net, I can retrieve my application's ProductName and CompanyName by using:

My.Application.Info.ProductName
My.Application.Info.CompanyName

How do I do the same thing in C#?

Solution 1

You can use Assembly and FileVersionInfo

Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
FileVersionInfo fvi = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(assembly.Location);
var companyName = fvi.CompanyName;
var productName = fvi.ProductName;
var productVersion = fvi.ProductVersion;

Solution 2

Just use:

System.Windows.Forms.Application.ProductName
System.Windows.Forms.Application.CompanyName

...in assembly System.Windows.Forms.dll

Or if you prefer:

using System.Windows.Forms;
//...
string productName = Application.ProductName;
string companyName = Application.CompanyName;

Solution 3

You need to reference the Microsoft.VisualBasic.MyServices namespace. See this for more info. You can't use the exact same syntax though. There are also more general .net ways that you would normally use in c# to get the same kind of info you get from My.Whatever in VB but they are completely unrelated to each other. There is no direct equivalent of using My.Whatever in c# the language.

Comments

[Hand-E-Food]

I always found it odd that C#, for all it's power, doesn't include the niceties found in the VisualBasic namespace.

[Hand-E-Food]

I like this. It doesn't require extra references.

[Hand-E-Food]

How have those properties escaped me all this time? Thanks!

[rfmodulator]

@Hand-E-Food - After I lost the answer I was afraid you would continue to remain oblivious. :)

[rfmodulator]

Agreed, this is the best way for a console application.

[SteveCinq]

Fine for a Windows form, no good for a class library. I didn't vote down but would have if (anon) down voting didn't annoy me so much with my own posts!