Visual Studio 2003 and satellite assemblies

Question

I have Visual Studio 2003 project and I have set all of the AssemblyInfo fields.

<Assembly: AssemblyTitle("FooBar")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyDescription("FooBar Desc")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyCompany("FooBar CO")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyProduct("FooBar")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyCopyright("FooBar 2009")>

These fields are correctly included in compiled assembly, but they aren't included in projects satellite assemblies (*.resources.dll).

Is there any way to include assembly infos to resource satellite assemblys in Visual Studio 2003?

Answer 1

You will have to link/share the AssemblyInfo.cs (or AssemblyInfo.vb) file with your satallite assemblies. Try read this: http://www.devx.com/vb2themax/Tip/18855 or watching this video from DimeCasts http://dimecasts.net/Casts/CastDetails/10

Answer 2

It seems that this is feature/bug in VS 2003. Assembly version is correctly assigned, but not the Company or Product -fields.

It works properly in VS 2005 and VS 2008.

Answer 3

You could try the /template option for Al.exe

The /template option specifies an assembly from which to inherit all assembly metadata, except the culture field. The assembly that the satellite assembly inherits from must have a strong name.

-- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/21a15yht.aspx