Comments on: Auto-Incrementing Build Numbers in Visual Studio.NET

By: pbidi

pbidi — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:06:06 +0000

Great article, it’s a little known feature that not many developers remember to leverage, especially on the Asp.Net side of coding. Personally I prefer a nightly TFS build and letting the build dictate those revision numbers.

By: Paul Luc

Paul Luc — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:58:15 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, Floyd. That’s a great example of a custom auto-incrementing algorithm.

By: floyd burger

floyd burger — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:39:23 +0000

Automatic version increments for specific builds (i.e. debug and release). You can tell it to increment the version only when doing a Release build.
http://autobuildversion.codeplex.com/

By: Paul Luc

Paul Luc — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:31:50 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Mike. While it’s true that you can edit assembly version information via the IDE, you must first remove the AssemblyFileVersion attribute from the AssemblyInfo.cs file in order for Visual Studio to apply auto-incrementing. Simply clearing the field values for the assembly file version via the IDE will result in a format-related exception.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:05:56 +0000

You can also do this in the Visual Studio IDE. Click the “Assembly Information…” button on the Application tab of the Project Properties page and change the Assembly and File Version entries as shown above.