Auto Versioning in Visual Studio 2017 (.NET Core)

Question

I have spent the better part of a few hours trying to find a way to auto-increment versions in a .NETCoreApp 1.1 (Visual Studio 2017).

I know the the AssemblyInfo.cs

Answer 1

You could do it like below, within the csproj file. I didn't figure out the math. I found that somewhere else on Stack Overflow, but this works and will give you something similiar to 1.0.* for version.

    netcoreapp3.1
    1.0.$([System.DateTime]::UtcNow.Date.Subtract($([System.DateTime]::Parse("2000-01-01"))).TotalDays).$([System.Math]::Floor($([MSBuild]::Divide($([System.DateTime]::UtcNow.TimeOfDay.TotalSeconds), 1.32))))
    1.0.$([System.DateTime]::UtcNow.Date.Subtract($([System.DateTime]::Parse("2000-01-01"))).TotalDays)