Application Version in Windows Phone 7

The typical method of retrieving application version using the code shown below doest work in Windows Phone 7 (it throws an exception).

string version = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version.ToString();

Instead you need to use the following code:

public static string GetVersion()
    {
        const string VerLabel = "Version=";
        string assemblyName = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().FullName;
        int startIndex = assemblyName.IndexOf(VerLabel) + VerLabel.Length;
        int endIndex = assemblyName.IndexOf(',', startIndex+1);
        string version = assemblyName.Substring(startIndex, endIndex - startIndex);
        return version;
    }