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

Thanks to @joelsand for pointing me in the right direction.

I had to change his answer slightly as when the DevOps Build ran, I got the following exception

The specified version string does not conform to the recommended format - major.minor.build.revision

I had to add the $(BUILD_BUILDNUMBER) at the end of major.minor.build section. To de-duplicate the actual version, I also use a version-prefix:

    1.0.3
    $(VersionPrefix)-local
    $(VersionPrefix)-$(BUILD_BUILDNUMBER)