Automatically update version number

Question

I would like the version property of my application to be incremented for each build but I\'m not sure on how to enable this functionality in Visual Studio (2005/2008). I ha

Answer 1

VS.NET defaults the Assembly version to 1.0.* and uses the following logic when auto-incrementing: it sets the build part to the number of days since January 1st, 2000, and sets the revision part to the number of seconds since midnight, local time, divided by two. See this MSDN article.

Assembly version is located in an assemblyinfo.vb or assemblyinfo.cs file. From the file:

' Version information for an assembly consists of the following four values:
'
'      Major Version
'      Minor Version 
'      Build Number
'      Revision
'
' You can specify all the values or you can default the Build and Revision Numbers 
' by using the '*' as shown below:
'