Automatic assembly version number management in VS2008

Question

I have a VS2008 project written in c# with a number of assemblies. I\'d like to have a simple way of managing the version numbers between all of the different assemblies and

Answer 1

using System.Reflection; [assembly : AssemblyVersion("1.2.3.*")]

Just a comment on this, the autogenerated version number cycles. So if you're looking to be able to version such that a build yesterday has a version 1.2.3.X where X < X a build today then this isn't the way to go.

To achieve this use

[assembly : AssemblyVersion("1.2.*")]

This will get you version 1.2.X.Y where the combination of X.Y is bigger today than it is yesterday. I'm guessing X.Y are a function of date and time respectively