Title of assembly renders oddly

[aphilpotts]

Using 2.1.1 beta, .NET Framework 4.6.1

Our assembly title is dotted

[assembly: AssemblyTitle("LI.AzureTool")]

Help text then renders with just the LI part of the name, like this

> .\LI.AzureTool.exe version
LI 6.3.0.0

I fixed that by changing the title to LIAzureTool

[assembly: AssemblyTitle("LIAzureTool")]

> .\LI.AzureTool.exe version
LIAzureTool 6.3.0.0

I am not sure if there is an easy way to override this in code, or indeed if this is expected behavior

[nemec]

The code assumes the title is a filename and removes what it thinks is the extension, the last part of your title.

commandline/src/CommandLine/Text/HeadingInfo.cs

Lines 58 to 61 in e626f9d

	var title = ReflectionHelper.GetAttribute<AssemblyTitleAttribute>()
	.MapValueOrDefault(
	titleAttribute => Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(titleAttribute.Title),
	ReflectionHelper.GetAssemblyName());

Does the title ever contain the file extension without adding it explicitly? If not, this is probably a bug. In the short term, you can continue to strip the . out or just add another dot to the end of the title.

[aphilpotts]

Ah, in my experience it is common to NOT have a file extension, as the title appears all over the place, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23144872/assemblytitle-attribute-in-the-net-framework for some examples and discussion

Microsoft call it a "friendly" name and in the examples I see, has no extension, but that is hardly a definitive guide.

What I will do for now, and is just fine OK with me, is to use a space instead of a dot in the my title, but I will say this was unexpected, and could be a problem for other projects if the Title could not be changed

[ericnewton76]

Yeah that looks bizarre IMO, running the Assembly Title attribute through Path functions... a title isn't a path...

I might trip this one out if somebody else doesn't beat me to it. (Still working on the build part... I'm starting to hate build.fsx)

[nemec]

Only thing I can think of is maybe an earlier version of the code tried to fall back to the executable name if the title was not defined and the path code was forgotten when that was removed.