Can I automatically increment the file build version when using Visual Studio?

Question

I was just wondering how I could automatically increment the build (and version?) of my files using Visual Studio (2005).

If I look up the properties of sa

Answer 1

In Visual Studio 2019

It was not enough for me adding

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]

When building it throws me this error

The specified version string does not conform to the required format

Solution

The format was finally accepted after I set Deterministic to False in project.csproj

false

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Edit:

For some reason setting Deterministic to False messed up my config file loading it and saving it on different locations.

Workaround:

I setup a post-build event to increment the revision number:

Post-Build Event batch script

This calls a powershell script named autoincrement_version.ps1 passing as argument the path of AssemblyInfo.cs

if $(ConfigurationName) == Release (
PowerShell -ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned $(ProjectDir)autoincrement_version.ps1 '$(ProjectDir)My Project\AssemblyInfo.cs'
)

Poweshell script

It autoincrements the revision number using Regex

param( [string]$file );
  $regex_revision = '(?<=Version\("(?:\d+\.)+)(\d+)(?="\))'
  $found = (Get-Content $file) | Select-String -Pattern $regex_revision
  $revision = $found.matches[0].value
  $new_revision = [int]$revision + 1
  (Get-Content $file) -replace $regex_revision, $new_revision | Set-Content $file -Encoding UTF8