How to read the assemblyversion from assemblyInfo.cs??

Question

Hii, there are many others had already post so many question about this..But here the scenario is different.

I need to extract the first three digits ie. $(major).$(Minor).$(Build) from version number. how can i do this??..i tried AssemblyInfo Task..but that task is just for overwriting the version number.not to extract the version number.

I need to extract first three number and assign them to some property.for further use.

well,i can overwrite them using FileUpdate task.like ::

< FileUpdate Files="@(AssemblyFile)" Regex='(\d+).(\d+).(\d+).(\d+)' ReplacementText='$1.$2.$3.$(Revision)'> < /FileUpdate>

now how can i use their value ie. $1,$2,$3 to assign to properties.???

Thanx.

Answer 1

The only solution is to write a custom build task, and parse the version number manually in the code.

Answer 2

You can use MSBuild.Community.Tasks.AssemblyInfo.AssemblyVersion to access AssemblyVersion and AssemblyFileVersion from AssemblyInfo.cs.

Indeed this task can only be used to set the version.

Maybe this post is usefull.

Answer 3

I use the RegexMatch-task from the MSBuild.Community.Tasks.

You can write the output of the match to an itemgroup, although you want to read it into 3 properties, as above, a custom task would then be prefered.