What are the best practices for using Assembly Attributes?

Question

I have a solution with multiple project. I am trying to optimize AssemblyInfo.cs files by linking one solution wide assembly info file. What are the best practices for doing

Answer 1

In my opinion using a GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs is more trouble than it's worth, because you need to modify every project file and remember to modify every new project, whereas you get an AssemblyInfo.cs by default.

For changes to global values (i.e. Company, Product etc) the changes are usually so infrequent and simple to manage I don't think DRY should be a consideration. Just run the following MSBuild script (dependent on the MSBuild Extension Pack) when you want to manually change the values in all projects as a one-off: