Increment version number in advanced installer

Question

I read a little of the help for my advanced installer 6.5.1 and couldn't find a way to change the version string except by hand.

Answer 1

The files for creating an MSI are usually in XML format, we've created a little tool that runs as part of our build process that goes and changes the build number manually, try openning the advanced installer file in notepad and look for the "ProductVersion" string.

Cheers, Rob.

Answer 2

Here is a snippet from one of our push scripts. Rob, maybe you'll find this useful too- Advanced installer provides the ability to set the ProductVersion of your installation package based on an existing compiled EXE. We use a custom build task in TFS to increment our build number and set our AssemblyInfo.cs files, then with the resulting main app EXE, we can do this:

:COMPILE_AIP

SET AIP_DIR="C:\Program Files\Caphyon\Advanced Installer 7.1.3"

ECHO Advanced Installer Directiry: %AIP_DIR%

ECHO.
ECHO //////////////////////////
ECHO //Compiling AIP Files...//
ECHO //////////////////////////
ECHO.

ECHO Setting version on all installers...
ECHO Setting version on all installers... >> %DESTINATION_APP_DIR%_push_script_output.txt
%AIP_DIR%\advancedinstaller /edit "<pathtoaipfile>\installproject.aip" /SetVersion -fromfile <path to exe defining app version>
    IF NOT ERRORLEVEL 0 GOTO ERROR_HANDLER

Hope this helps-