Determine assembly version during a post-build event

Question

Let\'s say I wanted to create a static text file which ships with each release. I want the file to be updated with the version number of the release (as specified in A

Answer 1

I've started adding a separate project that builds last and adding a post build event to that project that runs itself. Then I just perform my post build steps programmatically in there.

It makes it a lot easier to do stuff like this. Then you can just inspect the assembly attributes of whatever assembly you want. So far it's working pretty awesome.