How to show Product version in windows form application published by installshield

Question

I want to show current version of my windows form application project in a window. while i publish my project using visual studio publish wizard below code meet my requirement.

    public string CurrentVersion
    {
        get
        {
            return ApplicationDeployment.IsNetworkDeployed
                   ? ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment.CurrentVersion.Revision.ToString()
                   : Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version.Revision.ToString();
        }
    }

Now I want to publish my project using Installshield and creating msi project. How can I get product version when using this approach?

Answer 1

You could do this:

var yrversion = Application.ProductVersion;
this.label1.Text = String.Format("HRIS Version {0}", yrversion);

I already researched and put these code many times on any of my projects.

Edit:

This is where the application version comes from.

And you will see the changes

Don't forget to publish it.

Answer 2

To get the version of an MSI file you need to know its ProductCode (from the Properties window of your setup project where I assume you set it).

The core API is the Win32 MsiGetProductInfo(), but a search reveals that this SO post is a C# example:

Reading current installed version of an application using windows api