How to synchronise the publish version to the assembly version in a .NET ClickOnce application?

Question

In my C# ClickOnce application, there is an auto-incremented publish version in the Project -> Properties -> Publish tab. I\'d like to display that version

Answer 1

I did it the other way around, used a wildcard for my assembly version - 1.0.* - so Visual Studio/MSBuild generated a version number automatically:

// AssemblyInfo.cs    
[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]

And then I added the following AfterCompile target to the ClickOnce project to assign synchronize PublishVersion with the assembly version:

    
      

    
    
      %(TargetAssemblyIdentity.Version)