I am looking for an MSBuild task/script that will allow me to control the version of an old VB6 project?
The .vbp stores the version information as .ini style, but I cannot find a simple way to read and write the three entries.
A:
I'm not sure that its implemented in any library
You could implement a custom task that calls GetPrivateProfileString.
However a novel idea would be to convert the file automatically to XML via an MSBUILD exec call and then parse that xml using the msbuild more easily.
Preet Sangha
2009-10-26 23:11:28
I'm trying to avoid custom tasks as much as possible.
Rob Hunter
2009-10-29 19:55:38
+2
A:
I always use the FileUpdate-task from the MSBuildCommunityTasks, found on http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/
You can use regular expressions to find the pattern and then replace in the text you want. For example: to replace the versionnumber in an assembly-info.cs:
<FileUpdate Files="@(VersioningAssemblyInfoFiles)"
Regex="AssemblyFileVersion\(".*"\)\]"
ReplacementText="AssemblyFileVersion("$(VersionMajor).$(VersionMinor).$(VersionBuild).$(VersionRevision)")]" />
Bart Janson
2009-10-27 12:31:07
+1 For being able to write, but it doesn't help for reading the version info.
Rob Hunter
2009-10-29 19:54:17
Dude, research is teh friend! For reading from files, you can use <ReadLinesFromFile File="%(SolutionToBuild.Identity)"> <Output TaskParameter="Lines" ItemName="ItemsFromFile"/> </ReadLinesFromFile>and then filter out what you need using regular expressions, or, use the freely available XmlQuery-task (from the MSBuildCommunityTasks) if your document contains xml.
Bart Janson
2009-10-30 14:53:32