AssemblyInfoHelper v5.1.0 — nugetz
M1S2/ AssemblyInfoHelper v5.1.0 .NET FW4.5.2 .NET FW4.7.2 .NET 6.0-windows7.0
Display informations gathered from the assembly info.
Get Started dotnet CLI PackageReference Package Manager
$ dotnet add package AssemblyInfoHelperReadme AssemblyInfoHelper
Purpose
The AssemblyInfoHelper gets and displays the assembly attributes of the assembly that calls this functions.
This contains the following informations:
AssemblyTitle
AssemblyDescription
AssemblyCompany
AssemblyProduct
AssemblyCopyright
AssemblyTrademark
AssemblyVersion
AssemblyFileVersion (this attribute is only show if it differs from the AssemblyVersion)
AssemblyInformationalVersion
AssemblyCreationTime
The readme is get from the README.md file in the path given when creating the WindowAssemblyInfo or the application startup path.
The changelog is get from the CHANGELOG.md file in the path given when creating the WindowAssemblyInfo or the application startup path.
GitHub releases are taken from repository at the url given by the GitHubRepo attribute (see usage below).
The AssemblyInfoHelper.Demo is used to test the AssemblyInfoHelper.
Installation You can also use the Package Manager console with: PM> Install-Package AssemblyInfoHelper
Usage To show all releases from GitHub add the GitHubRepo attribute to the AssemblyInfo.cs file:
[assembly: AssemblyInfoHelper.GitHub.GitHubRepo("https://github.com/M1S2/AssemblyInfoHelper")]
The simplest way to show the WindowAssemblyInfo is to add a AppInfoButton control to the application. Everything is done inside this control.
xmlns:assemblyInfoHelper="clr-namespace:AssemblyInfoHelper;assembly=AssemblyInfoHelper"
...
<assemblyInfoHelper:AppInfoButton EnableNewVersionNotification="True"/>
Or you can open the info window with:
AssemblyInfoHelper.WindowAssemblyInfo window = new AssemblyInfoHelper.WindowAssemblyInfo();
window.ShowDialog();
Add assembly attributes
New style projects Add the following properties to a .csproj file to include assembly attributes:
<PropertyGroup>
<GenerateAssemblyInfo>true</GenerateAssemblyInfo>
<Title>TitleText</Title>
<Description>DescriptionText</Description>
<Company>CompanyText</Company>
<Product>ProductText</Product>
<Copyright>Copyright © 2022</Copyright>
</PropertyGroup>
Old style projects Add the following lines to the AssemblyInfo.cs file to include assembly attributes:
[assembly: AssemblyTitle("TitleText")]
[assembly: AssemblyDescription("DescriptionText")]
[assembly: AssemblyCompany("CompanyText")]
[assembly: AssemblyProduct("ProductText")]
[assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright © 2022")]
[assembly: AssemblyTrademark("TrademarkText")]
Update Feature You can see and download all releases available on GitHub on the GitHub releases tab.
To Upgrade/Repair/Downgrade click on the button beside the corresponding release. The release is downloaded from GitHub and installed automatically depending if an installer or binaries are available.
Compatibility .NET FW4.5.2
.NET FW4.7.2
.NET 6.0-windows7.0
