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ApplicationIdentity Class

.NET Framework 4

Provides the ability to uniquely identify a manifest-activated application. This class cannot be inherited.

System.Object
  System.ApplicationIdentity

Namespace:  System
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
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[SerializableAttribute]
[ComVisibleAttribute(false)]
public sealed class ApplicationIdentity : ISerializable

The ApplicationIdentity type exposes the following members.

  Name Description
Public method ApplicationIdentity Initializes a new instance of the ApplicationIdentity class.
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Public property CodeBase Gets the location of the deployment manifest as a URL.
Public property FullName Gets the full name of the application.
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  Name Description
Public method Equals(Object) Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method Finalize Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetHashCode Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method GetType Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
Protected method MemberwiseClone Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
Public method ToString Infrastructure. Returns the full name of the manifest-activated application. (Overrides Object.ToString().)
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Explicit interface implemetation Private method ISerializable.GetObjectData Infrastructure. Populates a SerializationInfo object with the data needed to serialize the target object.
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The ApplicationIdentity class is used in the activation of manifest-based applications.

The following code example demonstrates the use of an ActivationContext object to obtain the ApplicationIdentity for a manifest-based application. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the ActivationContext class.

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ActivationContext ac = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.ActivationContext;
ApplicationIdentity ai = ac.Identity;

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows XP SP2 x64 Edition, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.
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