Get company name and copyright information of assembly

Question

I am using Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().GetName() to get application/assembly name and its version but I do not see any variable for company name and copyright. How do I get that?

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score 68 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 15 '13 at 14:53

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You can use FileVersionInfo like this:

var versionInfo = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().Location);

var companyName = versionInfo.CompanyName;

answered Oct 15 '13 at 14:53

Alessandro D'Andria

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This answer might not work with "Single File" published assemblies. (see for help: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/single-file ) – Rhaokiel Jan 19 '21 at 21:24
Maybe, the answer were thought mainly for full (old) .NET Framework. – Alessandro D'Andria Jan 19 '21 at 21:44
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Yeah, just letting others who may have come here looking for an answer (like me) find what they need faster. It took me a couple hours to figure out why this was working in debug, but not after publishing. – Rhaokiel Jan 19 '21 at 21:46

score 16 · Answer 2 · edited Apr 01 '22 at 09:58

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From this answer for the company name:

Assembly currentAssem = typeof(CurrentClass).Assembly;
object[] attribs = currentAssem.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(AssemblyCompanyAttribute), true);
if(attribs.Length > 0)
{
    string company = ((AssemblyCompanyAttribute)attribs[0]).Company;
}

Code is similar for the copyright, use AssemblyCopyrightAttribute instead of AssemblyCompanyAttribute.

edited Apr 01 '22 at 09:58

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answered Oct 15 '13 at 14:50

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score 5 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 15 '13 at 14:49

Those are attributes that you have to enumerate on the Assembly object using reflection.

var attributes = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly().GetCustomAttributes(typeof(AssemblyCompanyAttribute), false);

var attribute = null;
if (attributes.Length > 0)
{
    attribute = attributes[0] as AssemblyCompanyAttribute;
}

Get company name and copyright information of assembly

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