I've got a rather large solution in Visual Studio. Is there a way to update the Major / Minor version numbers for all the assemblies in the solution in one go?
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Search/Replace?
The version numbers are stored in text-files after all (AssemblyInfo.cs under the Properties folder for each project).
Lasse V. Karlsen
2009-04-17 09:01:31
That would work if all the assemblies were at the same major/minor version. Unfortunately mine are all over the place :)
PaulB
2009-04-17 09:02:43
Do you want to just increment them, or make them all the same? Because you can easily use a regular expression to find them all, even if they have different numbers.
Lasse V. Karlsen
2009-04-17 09:09:03
Here's one that would work: \[assembly:\s+AssemblyVersion\("\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+"\)\]
Lasse V. Karlsen
2009-04-17 09:10:33
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You can share an AssemblyInfo.cs file between all projects in the solution. This shared file should contain the version numbers. To share it, you must use Add Existing File in VS and select Add as Link in the file dialog. Every project has its private and the shared AssemblyInfo.cs. The private one still contains the non-Version attributes.
I've got a TeamCity setup, where I'm generating the shared file in each TeamCity build using the actual build version and it works beautifully.
__grover
2009-04-17 09:03:49
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We have a single AssemblyInfoCommon.cs which has the version numbers, and is included in each project by reference. The other AssemblyInfo.cs files remain but only contain the assembly-specific information (title and description). So we only have one file to update for every C# project.
marijne
2009-04-17 09:05:36
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You can also have a public const string in one of your classes, that represents the build number, and use it in all your AssemblyInfo.cs for the different projects. Of course this would have to be in a project that are referenced by all the other projects, in order to work.
It is a good option, if you don't like the idea to reference the same AssemblyInfo.cs in all your projects.
driis
2009-04-17 09:11:24
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There is a very useful utility I used some time ago on a project which required highly managed versioning:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/macros/versioningcontrolledbuild.aspx