Assembly Versioning with TeamCity

Question

I\'m working on a C#/VB.Net project that uses SVN and TeamCity build server. A dozen or so assemblies are produced by the build. I want to control the assembly versions so t

Answer 1

We're using CruiseControl.net and SVN. We drive it the other way. We are using the MSBuildCommunityTasks Version task in an MSBuild script to increment the version number for CI builds and using that version number to tag the source code.

EDIT: Asked for more detail on MSBuild targets...
We use a separate script that is for the CI build and is not used for the developer builds. We tried using different targets in the MSBuild files that studio uses as project files but this got to be a headache and required manual editing of files that studio was generating.
The structure of the MSBuild file is pretty straightforward:

1. Import extra pieces

   
   
   

2. BeforeBuild: set new version number and rewrite the AssemblyInfo file

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   
OutputFile="Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs"
AssemblyTitle="$(TargetAssembly)"
AssemblyDescription="$(AssemblyDescription) svn:@(SanitizedSvnUrl) revision:$(SvnRevision)"
AssemblyCompany="Your company name"
AssemblyProduct="Name of product"
AssemblyCopyright="Copyright © your company 2009"
ComVisible="false" Guid="$(WindowGuid)"
AssemblyVersion="$(Major).$(Minor).$(Build).$(Revision)"
AssemblyFileVersion="$(Major).$(Minor).$(Build).$(Revision)"
Condition="$(Revision) != '0' " />

3. Build: build the actual project file MSBuild script in release mode

4. AfterBuild: we run our unit test projects (as a guard against creating tags for broken builds in the next steps), use the SvnInfo tasks and some RegexReplace tasks to set some variables up with paths and tag names, and use the SvnCopy task to create the tag.


Password="password"
SourcePath="@(SvnTrunkPath)"
DestinationPath="@(SvnTagsPath)/BUILD-$(TargetAssembly)-$(Major).$(Minor).$(Build).$(Revision)" Message="Tagging successful build" />