Plug In Version Numbers

[bgowland]

All of the info displayed when you select 'Properties' of a file in Windows Explorer can be obtained from...

Code:

System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo

...I use this to write out my assembly (build) version to log files on startup but I could as easily write out the company name, product version, copyright info etc

[mvallevand]

This explains what I am trying to say. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/64602...assemblyin You are seeing overides when you use only one of them.

Martin

[bgowland]

Actually I just checked my code and I was wrong. I changed things around recently to give a more concise file version in contrast to the assembly build version. It's still trivial to do though if devs keep their AssemblyInfo.cs up to date.

In AssemblyInfo.cs I have...

Code:

[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("1.7.1")]
[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.7.*")]

...and I get them separately using...

Code:

System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo fvi = System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(nDroidServiceExePath);
serviceFileVersion = fvi.ProductVersion;
string assemblyVersion = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version;

Logging these gives me...

Code:

11/01/2012 02:43:51.359 nDroidService v1.7.1
11/01/2012 02:43:51.375 nDroidService Build: v1.7.4393.4909

[psycik]

So why wouldn't you have your assembly version set to 1.7.1.* for consistency with the file version? I can't remember what the 4th section is supposed to be for.

[bgowland]

So why wouldn't you have your assembly version set to 1.7.1.* for consistency with the file version? I can't remember what the 4th section is supposed to be for.

It's Major.Minor.Build.Revision and you can't use '*' for revision alone (VS chokes). If I remember correctly, the auto-generated Build.Revision are based on the number of minutes, seconds (or something) since Bill Gates last checked his bank account.

EDIT - In my case (for nDroid at least) I'm maintaining a version of an Android client and a .NET service. Yeah, it's pretty crap versioning but it's the best I can do to keep myself sane. Sometimes I update one or the other or both - as long as I've got a record of which is where at what timeline I can mostly work out where to find my source code.

[whurlston]

...if devs keep their AssemblyInfo.cs up to date...

:eek: Wait... what?

[bgowland]

:eek: Wait... What?

Breathe man, Breathe!!!