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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

By : Sheridan Yuen
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Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation

By: Sheridan Yuen

Overview of this book

Windows Presentation Foundation is rich in possibilities when it comes to delivering an excellent user experience. This book will show you how to build professional-grade applications that look great and work smoothly. We start by providing you with a foundation of knowledge to improve your workflow – this includes teaching you how to build the base layer of the application, which will support all that comes after it. We’ll also cover the useful details of data binding. Next, we cover the user interface and show you how to get the most out of the built-in and custom WPF controls. The final section of the book demonstrates ways to polish your applications, from adding practical animations and data validation to improving application performance. The book ends with a tutorial on how to deploy your applications and outlines potential ways to apply your new-found knowledge so you can put it to use right away.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Mastering Windows Presentation Foundation
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Accessing application versions


In .NET, an application has a number of different versions and so, we have a number of alternative ways to access them. The version number that we discussed earlier and is displayed in the Publish Version section of the Publish tab of the project properties can be found using the ApplicationDeployment class from the System.Deployment DLL.

using System.Deployment.Application;

...

private string GetPublishedVersion() 
{ 
  if (ApplicationDeployment.IsNetworkDeployed) 
  { 
    return ApplicationDeployment.CurrentDeployment.CurrentVersion.
      ToString(); 
  } 
  return "Not network deployed"; 
} 

Note that we need to verify that the application has actually been deployed before we can access the CurrentVersion property of the ApplicationDeployment class, otherwise an InvalidDeploymentException will be thrown. This means that we cannot attain the published version while debugging our WPF applications...