Get Assembly Version of program that called dll, from within the dll.

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C#

C#4.0

I have a dll, within that dll, I want to get the assembly version of the exe that is referencing it and using classes in that dll. I want this for tracking purposes.

Currently these both only return the assembly version of the dll, not the exe referencing it.

string assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version.ToString();
string callingassembly = Assembly.GetCallingAssembly().GetName().Name;
string callingversion = Assembly.GetCallingAssembly().GetName().Version.ToString();

I can also get the dll version from the calling exe using this, but I want the opposite:

Assembly.GetAssembly(this._variable.GetType()).GetName().Version);

where _variable is an object that is declared in the exe, of a type contained in the dll.