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Curtis
Curtis

Reputation: 685

Is it possible to reset my version numbering when using clickOnce

I have a WinForms app which is deployed via clickOnce. It's set up to check for a newer version on startup. Historically this app has had releases numbered using the current date, ie 2014.11.11 would be a version release today.

I would like to go to using a system where the version number means something, however I don't want to start with 2015.1.1. Is it possible to bring my major version number down to a single digit, and still have updates picked up when run by the users?

The app is .Net 4.0, being built worked on Visual Studio 2010

Upvotes: 0

Views: 384

Answers (1)

Atilla Ozgur
Atilla Ozgur

Reputation: 14701

No, you can not reset your version numbers. See following help from microsoft.

The ClickOnce Publish Version property determines whether or not the application that you are publishing will be treated as an update. Each time version is incremented, the application will be published as an update. ... You should never decrement a version number; doing so could cause unpredictable update behavior.

You can however choose a version number as single number like 2015001 as long as this number is bigger than your last version, like 2015001 > 2014.11.11.

If you want to go to a single digit, you need to publish an application from fresh, like it is a completely new application.

Instead of using your version numbers as day numbers, I suggest that you use following approach. 

Year.MajorVersion.MinorVersion 
2015.001.001
Office 2015 , Service Pack 1, Patch 1

Upvotes: 1

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