Windows Forms Programming in Visual Basic .NET

Environment

During its lifetime, an application runs in a certain environment. The environment is provided by a combination of compile-time and run-time settings supplied by .NET and Windows.

Compile-Time Settings

The Application class exposes several properties that provide the company name, product name, and product version of the currently running application:

Sub AboutBox_Load(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
  Me.companyNameTextBox.Text = Application.CompanyName
  Me.productNameTextBox.Text = Application.ProductName
  Me.productVersionTextBox.Text = Application.ProductVersion
End Sub

By default, these three values come from assemblywide AssemblyCompanyAttribute, AssemblyProductAttribute, and AssemblyVersionAttribute (provided in a wizard-generated ...