Setting the version number for .NET Core projects - CSPROJ - not JSON projects

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This question is very similar to Setting the version number for .NET Core projects, but not the same. Using the latest stable version of .NET Core at the time of writing (1.

Answer 1

You can override any property from the command line by passing /p:PropertyName=Value as arguments to dotnet restore, dotnet build and dotnet pack.

Currently, Version composition works as this: If Version is unset, use VersionPrefix (defaults to 1.0.0 if unset) and - if present - append VersionSuffix.

All other version are then defaulted to whatever Version is.

So for example you can set 1.2.3 in your csproj and then call dotnet pack --version-suffix beta1 to produce a YourApp.1.2.3-beta1.nupkg (if you have project reference that you want the version suffix to be applied to as well, you need to call dotnet restore /p:VersionSuffix=beta1 before that - this is a known bug in the tooling).

Of course, you can use custom variables as well, see this GitHub issue for a few examples.

For a complete reference of supported assembly attributes, i suggest looking at the source code of the build logic here (the values surrounded with $() are the properties used). And since i'm already talking about the source, this is the logic that composes the version and a few other properties.