 10-17-2007, 12:34 PM
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HOW TO: Find A Build Number or Assembly Version
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Knowing what build number of ActiveReports you are using can be very helpful for diagnostic purposes. It is a very easy way to find exactly what version of a product is being used.
There are a few ways to find your build number. The easiest is looking in an open Visual Studio solution. If you are using a webforms project, expand the ‘References Folder’. Choose one of the ActiveReports dll files and look at the version number at the very bottom. This is the build of ActiveReports your project is using. The ‘Runtime Version’ is the version number of the .NET framework that this dll was compiled against.
In a web project in VS2005, in the solution explorer window, right click on the solution name, choose ‘Property Pages’. This will display the references of your project, the build number of each reference is shown under the version column.
When checking the build number of Active Reports 2 for COM, it is also possible to find the build number within the designer. In your project, open up the designer of one of your reports and click on the grey area to select the report object. Now, click on the About property. A dialog will appear which displays the build number of Active Reports which is in use.
When using DynamiCube 3, you can find the build number the same way in VB6. Just select a DCube control and click the about button in the property grid. When using DynamiCube 3 in .NET, the About dialog can also be accessed but it is located in a different place. After selecting the Cube control, you can find the About dialog just below the property grid. If you do not see the link in this panel, right click on the property grid and check the Commands option. This will now display the link for the About dialog.
If you are using Data Dynamics Reports, you can find the build number in the Report Designer. Open the designer, at the top, click on Help, and then About. This will open a dialog which displays the version of Data Dynamics Reports which is installed.
Another way of looking for the build number of Data Dynamics products is in the file system. Navigate to C > Program Files > Common Files > Data Dynamics > and then the product name. Now, you can see the dlls which are installed on your machine. You can see the build number below the file name, or right click, go to properties, and click the version tab.
Another place to find the build number is in the GAC. Navigate to C > Windows > assembly. All the of the Data Dynamics .NET dlls can be found here. The version number of each dll is displayed in the version column.
There is a video at the following link which demonstrates how to find the build number in several of our products. After downloading the zip file, uncompress it and open WhatsMyBuildNumber.html. You will need to have Flash Player installed.
ftp://ftp.datadynamics.com/misc/WhatsMyBuildNumber.zip
Applies To:
ActiveBar 2.0
ActiveBar 3.0
ActiveReports 1.0
ActiveReports 2.0
ActiveReports for .NET 1.0
ActiveReports for .NET 2.0
ActiveReports for .NET 3.0
ActiveSizer 1.0
DynamiCube 2.5
DynamiCube 3.0
SharpGraph for .NET 1.0
SharpGrid 2.0
SharpUI for .NET 1.0
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