Our automated build machine needs to archive the version numbers of the OS plus various tools used during each build. (In case we ever need to replicate exactly the same build later on, perhaps when the machine is long dead.) I see the command "msinfo32.exe" can be used to dump a whole load of system version information, which we might...
I see so many projects and softwares released on the internet that has a 0.x version and they never reaches 1.0. Shouldn't a first release be 1.0 (or 1.0b at least)? Example, the VLC project dated 1996-2008 now at version 0.8.6? ...
I am intentionally leaving this quite vague at first. I'm looking for discussion and what issues are important more than I'm looking for hard answers. I'm in the middle of designing an app that does something like portfolio management. The design I have so far is Problem: a problem that needs to be solved Solution: a proposed soluti...
Let's take a web development environment, where developers checkout a project onto their local machines, work on it, and check in changes to development. These changes are further tested on development and moved live on a regular schedule (eg weekly, monthly, etc.). Is it possible to have an auto-moveup of the latest tagged version (and ...
In .NET there are two version numbers available when building a project, File Version and Assembly Version. How are you using these numbers? Keeping them the same? Auto-incrementing one, but manually changing the other? Also what about the AssemblyInformationalVersion attribute? I'd found this support Microsoft Knowledge Base (KB) ar...
Hello, Can anyone suggest a way of getting version information into a Web Service. (VB.NET) I would like to dynamically use the assembly version in the title or description, but the attributes require constants. Is manually writing the version info as a string the only way of displaying the information on the .asmx page? Thanks ...
I'd like to implement a way of recording the version of a project within code, so that it can be used when testing and to help track bugs. It seems the best version number to use would just be the current revision number from Subversion. Is there an easy way to hook this number into a (C++ in my case) header file or something, which I c...
Here is my code, which takes two version identifiers in the form "1, 5, 0, 4" or "1.5.0.4" and determines which is the newer version. Suggestions or improvements, please! /// <summary> /// Compares two specified version strings and returns an integer that /// indicates their relationship to one another in the sort order. ...
Particularly, Does it work with 9i Standard? Do you have some easy example that'd allow me to check it? ...
Maybe this is a silly question, but I've always assumed each number delineated by a period represented a single component of the software. If that's true, do they ever represent something different? I'd like to start assigning versions to the different builds of my software, but I'm not really sure how it should be structured. My softw...
I've been wondering about the performance improvements touted in Java SE 6 - is it in the compiler or the runtime? Put another way, would a Java 5 application compiled by JDK 6 see an improvement run under JSE 5 (indicating improved compiler optimization)? Would a Java 5 application compiled by JDK 5 see an improvement run under JSE 6 (i...
My question is, which version-naming scheme should be used for what type of project. Very common is major.minor.fix, but even this can lead to 4 number (i.e. Firefox 2.0.0.16). Some have a model that odd numbers indicate developer-versions and even numbers stable releases. And all sorts of additions can enter the mix, like -dev3, -rc1, ...
My ClickOnce application uses a third party tool that requires the Visual C++ 2005 redistributable. The third party tool will not work if only the VC++ 2008 redistributable is installed. However, in Visual Studio 2008, the ClickOnce prerequisites do not allow a version to be specified for the VC++ redistributable; it will add a VC++ 2008...
If you have a project, that releases a library and an application, how you handle version-numbers between the two. Example: Your project delivers a library, that convert different file-formats into each other. The library is released for inclusion into other applications. But you also release a command-line-application, that uses this l...
One small function of a large program examines assemblies in a folder and replaces out-of-date assemblies with the latest versions. To accomplish this, it needs to read the version numbers of the existing assembly files without actually loading those assemblies into the executing process. ...
A project I'm working on requires serializing a data structure before shutting down and restores its state from this serialized data when it start up again. Last year, we were building for .NET 1.1, and ran into a tricky issue where our code ran on .NET 2.0 a customer upgraded with some software that somehow set 1.1 as default our cod...
How do you stay up-to-date when it comes to new software versions? Above all, I mean minor updates (new version for your Joomla-Installation, forum-software, FTP-Client, ...). Versiontracker, RSS-Feeds, Newsletter... what else? Anyone wrote a script crawling websites for new versions or something similar? ...
With the recent announcement of .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, it is becoming ever more difficult to keep track of what .NET Framework versions build on what version of the CLR and belong with which version(s) of Visual Studio. Is there a definative table that shows these relationships? ...
I am trying to run some unit tests in a C# winforms application (VS 2005) and I get the following error: System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'Utility, Version=1.2.0.200, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=764d581291d764f7' or one of its dependencies. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the ass...
Ive recently been asked to recommend a .NET framework version to use in a (GUI based) project for an XP machine. Can anyone explain the differences between all the .NET versions? OR, Does anyone have a good reference to a site that details (briefly) the differences? ...