How to access the current Subversion build number?

Question

How can you automatically import the latest build/revision number in subversion?

The goal would be to have that number visible on your webpage footer like SO does.

Answer 1

I use the MSBuild Community Tasks project which has a tool to retrieve the SVN revision number and add it to your AssemblyInfo.vb. You can then use reflection to retrieve this string to display it in your UI.

Here's a full blog post with instructions.