How can I auto-increment an MVC 6 version number?

Question

Previous versions of ASP.NET allowed you to auto-increment the version number via Project Properties. How can I do this in MVC 6?

Answer 1

ASP.NET 5 (DNX) Answer

This is what the ASP.NET 5 team actually uses themselves. If you are using a continuous integration build server you can get your build server to set the DNX_BUILD_VERSION environment variable like so using PowerShell:

$env:DNX_BUILD_VERSION=$version

Your build machine then sets $version to 'build123' or something similar (It can't start with a number, has to be a character from the alphabet) Then, as long as your version number is set like so:

{
    "version": "1.0.0-*"
}

The star will be replaced with the value in the DNX_BUILD_VERSION environment variable. See the ASP.NET 5 GitHub page here for more info.