Question assembly version of web file?

[fabio]

Hi! Is there a way to get assembly version of a file located on the web?
For example: http://www.mysite.com/myfile.exe with version 1.4...

 

[jmcilhinney]

No there isn't. I'm not sure that you can even get the file version, never mind the assembly version. When ClickOnce checks for updates, it downloads the deployment manifest and gets the version information from that to compare with the local files. You'd have to do something like that, or else create a web service that could get the version of a local file on its server and send it to you.

 

[fabio]

I'm thinking of downloading the manifiest with the info using a webclient in a background thread. Thanks.