Retrieve the Current App version from Package

c#, prism-storeapps, uwp, windows-store, windows-store-apps

Solution

Here's what you can do to retrieve the version in code:

using Windows.ApplicationModel;

public static string GetAppVersion()
{
  Package package = Package.Current;
  PackageId packageId = package.Id;
  PackageVersion version = packageId.Version;

  return string.Format("{0}.{1}.{2}.{3}", version.Major, version.Minor, version.Build, version.Revision);
}

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Problem

While I can get the assembly version using the following code ``` var assembly = typeof(App).GetTypeInfo().Assembly; var assemblyVersion = assembly.GetCustomAttribute<AssemblyFileVersionAttribute>().Version; ``` I would like to retrieve the Version from `Package.appxmanifest` in this case 1.0.0.4 ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <Package xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/2010/manifest" xmlns:m2="http://schemas.microsoft.com/appx/2013/manifest"> <Identity Name="zzz" Publisher="CN=zzz" Version="1.0.0.4" /> ``` I expected to have access to `Windows.ApplicationModel`, but this is not available to me

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