assemblyversionattribute

GetCustomAttribute() returns null for AssemblyVersionAttribute

I'm adding an About dialog to my .NET application and I'm querying the assembly's attributes for information to display. When I attempt to retrieve my assembly's AssemblyVersionAttribute using GetCustomAttribute() it returns null: // Works fine AssemblyTitleAttribute title = (AssemblyTitleAttribute)Attribute.GetCustomAttribute( ...

.NET: Large revision numbers in AssemblyVersionAttribute

We have the convention of versioning our builds as [major].[minor].[micro].[revision], e.g. 2.1.2.33546. Our build-script automatically updates an AssemblyInfo.cs file containing [assembly: AssemblyVersion("x.y.z.w")] in order to embed the version-number in the assembly. But our Subversion-repository just reached revision #65535, w...

Can SourceSafe be configured to update AsemblyInfo

Hello. At work we have an (reasonable) agreement, that every time a project is updated, no matter how small change is, that is reflected in the Revision value of Assembly Information. This way we always know if a client is missing a patch or a feature, etc. Since this requires manually changing the version, and since this is a tedious ...

What is the AssemblyFileVersion used for in C#?

Hello, In the assemblyInfo.cs I have AssemblyVersion and AssemblyFileVersion. Normally I just increment the AssemblyVersion like this. 1st digit: Major change 2nd digit: Minor change 3rd digit: bug fixes 4rd digit: Subversion revision number However, I am wondering what is the AssemblyFileVersion for, and when do I need to increment. ...

Version information missing from .NET assembly (Compact Framework 3.5/VS2008)

I am building an executable using VS2008 and .NET compact framework 3.5, targetting Windows Mobile 6 professional, but whenever I compile the project, everything that I have specified in the AssemblyInfo.cs file is ignored. I have done this many times in other projects and it works without problem, but for some reason I cannot get the A...

How do I read the AssemblyFileVersion of a C# DLL from Visual Basic?

I am invoking a C# object from a Visual Basic 6.0 sub routine (don't ask). How do I get the AssemblyFileVersion from Visual Basic? ...

Why is Assembly.GetCustomAttributes suddenly throwing TypeLoadException on build machine with Silverlight 4?

A short while back i had to display the current version of our Silverlight app. After some googling the following code gave me the desired result: var fileVersionAttributes = typeof(MyClass).Assembly. GetCustomAttributes(typeof(AssemblyFileVersionAttribute), false) as AssemblyFileVersionAttribute[]; var version = fileVersionAttribut...

VB.Net - What is the difference between AssemblyFileVersion & AssemblyFileVersionAttribute and AssemblyVersion & AssemblyVersionAttribute

I've inherited a VB.Net codebase which was VB 2005 and upgraded to VB 2008 consisting of around 100 projects I'm trying to re-version all of the components but have discovered some of the AssemblyInfo.vb files have an AssemblyFileVersion entry and some have an AssemblyFileVersionAttribute entry. Also, some have an AssemblyVersion entry...