[Mono-winforms-list] What is best to use to identify the mono runtime installation?

[Robert Jordan]

Maser, Dan wrote:
>   In my 'about' dialog on my app I display some useful information for
> diagnostics.  Meaning useful when someone reports a problem.  Currently
> it display things like the base OS, service packs/patches, and other
> various information that end uses can copy/paste into a bug report.
> I'm wondering what the best information to show about the mono runtime
> is?   If someone reports a problem it would be really useful to be able
> to say "that problem is already fixed in a later mono build".   On the
> mailing lists and such people often talk about "r77343" which is the svn
> revision.  Is that revision compiled into the runtime in some way that
> can be extracted at run time programatically?   Is there something
> better?  (Other ideas would include perhaps taking the build date of one
> of the core mono dlls or something).

That's the official way.
Note that the string is not parsable. It's only suitable for
About-dialogs or similar purposes (bug reports etc.):

using System;
using System.Reflection;

class T
{
	static void Main ()
	{
		Console.WriteLine (GetDisplayName ());
	}

	//
	// Returns the display name of the current runtime.
	//
	static string GetDisplayName ()
	{
		Type t = Type.GetType ("Mono.Runtime");
		if (t == null) return "MS.NET";

		MethodInfo mi = t.GetMethod ("GetDisplayName",
			BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.NonPublic);
		return (string) mi.Invoke (null, null);
	}
}

Robert