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ApplicationId Class

Contains information used to uniquely identify a manifest-based application. This class cannot be inherited.

Namespace:  System
Assembly:  mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

'Declaration
<SerializableAttribute> _
<ComVisibleAttribute(True)> _
Public NotInheritable Class ApplicationId
'Usage
Dim instance As ApplicationId

An application identity consists of the publisher's public key, the application name, the target processor architecture, the application culture, and the application version. The application identity properties values correspond to information contained in the application manifest. For more information about manifest-based applications, see ClickOnce Deployment Overview.

ApplicationId is used by the ApplicationSecurityInfo class to identify a manifest-based application.

The following code example displays the ApplicationId properties by obtaining the ApplicationId from an ApplicationSecurityInfo instance created using the ActivationContext for the currently executing manifest-based application.

Imports System
Imports System.Collections
Imports System.Text
Imports System.Security.Policy
Imports System.Reflection
Imports System.Security
Imports System.Security.Permissions



Public Class Program
    Inherits MarshalByRefObject
    <SecurityPermission(SecurityAction.Demand, ControlDomainPolicy:=true)> _
    Public Shared Sub Main(ByVal args() As String) 
        Console.WriteLine("Full name = " + _
            AppDomain.CurrentDomain.ActivationContext.Identity.FullName)
        Console.WriteLine("Code base = " + _
            AppDomain.CurrentDomain.ActivationContext.Identity.CodeBase)
        Dim asi As New ApplicationSecurityInfo(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.ActivationContext)     
        Console.WriteLine("ApplicationId.Name property = " + asi.ApplicationId.Name)
        If Not (asi.ApplicationId.Culture Is Nothing) Then
            Console.WriteLine("ApplicationId.Culture property = " + _
            asi.ApplicationId.Culture.ToString())
        End If
        Console.WriteLine("ApplicationId.ProcessorArchitecture property = " + _
            asi.ApplicationId.ProcessorArchitecture)
        Console.WriteLine("ApplicationId.Version property = " + _
            asi.ApplicationId.Version.ToString())
        ' To display the value of the public key, enumerate the Byte array for the property.
        Console.Write("ApplicationId.PublicKeyToken property = ")
        Dim pk As Byte() = asi.ApplicationId.PublicKeyToken
        Dim i As Integer 
        For i = 0 To (pk.GetLength(0))
            Console.Write("{0:x}", pk(i))
        Next i 
        Console.Read()

    End Sub 'Main

    Public Sub Run() 
        Main(New String() {})  
    End Sub 'Run
End Class 'Program

System.Object
  System.ApplicationId

Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP SP2, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2000 SP4, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 98

The .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework do not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.

.NET Framework

Supported in: 3.5, 3.0, 2.0
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