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Reputation: 917

What causes AssemblyInformationVersion to appear in some but not all AssemblyInfo.cs files?

i have just started at a new company where i am basically looking after solution builds using TFS 2010. i have added a few new custom activities to increase version numbers in the AssemblyInfo files of the projects and this is working fine. The problem im finding is that all AssemblyInfo.cs files have the AssemblyVersion and AssemblyFileVersion numbers, but only some have an AssemblyInformationVersion number aswell. Can anyone please tell me what causes the AssemblyInformationVersion to appear in some AssemblyInfo.cs files and not others?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 455

Answers (1)

Frédéric Hamidi
Frédéric Hamidi

Reputation: 262919

[AssemblyInformationalVersion] is an optional attribute that maps to the ProductVersion property of the application. If it is not present, the value specified in the [AssemblyVersion] attribute is used instead.

As far as I can tell, Visual Studio never adds [AssemblyInformationalVersion] attributes to the AssemblyInfo.cs files it generates. The developers might have added those if they wanted the product version to be different from the assembly version in some of your projects.

Upvotes: 3

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