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Pavan Kumar
Pavan Kumar

Reputation: 115

Updating the version/revision numbers for every new build

To achieve CI/CD am using VSTS, now am stuck at a point where i am supposed to increase the version numbers for every new build queued.

Is it possible to update the revision number of each project outputs (dll's or exe's) just by adding one more task in build definition or any msbuild arguments are available to change the version numbers in run time.

Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3101

Answers (1)

Chris
Chris

Reputation: 825

BuildNumbers are automatically created against every build that gets scheduled.

You specify what you want this to be in the Build>Options>Build number format section.

Default value is: 

$(date:yyyyMMdd)$(rev:.r)

But if you add some variables into your build then you can alter the format as such.

$(MajorVersion).$(MinorVersion)-$(date:MMdd)$(rev:.r)

This then get's passed through to your release step as the pre-defined variable 

$[BUILD_BUILDNUMBER] - TFS 2010/15/17 Update1

$(Build.BuildNumber) changed from old $[BUILD_BUILDNUMBER] for Update2

More info on build numbers and variables can be found here:

Build Number Format

Default Variables

Edits:

Yes you may add versioning to DLL's too. We use a a stock Microsoft Powershell script which does the trick, that we add as a build task (before the build solution step), the source can be found here:

Assembly PowerShell Script

This doesn't require any arguments as it uses the variables from the build process!

Upvotes: 4

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