How Do I Change a Project's Version in VB.NET?

[Howie Goodson]

I'm new to VB.NET and can't for the life of me figure out where to change
the project's version information. Anyone know?

[Paul Mc]

G'day Howie

>I'm new to VB.NET and can't for the life of me figure out where to change
>the project's version information. Anyone know?

Look in the AssemblyInfo.vb file...

Cheers,
Paul

[Howie Goodson]

Perfect! Thanks Paul!
Seems a bit archaic to have to do this with a text editor though. Probably
why I spent most of a day trying to figure out how it's done. LOL! I ever
would have suspected!
And as far as I can tell there is no way to auto-increment for each build
like in VB6 (or even alter this information from within the IDE). However,
it wouldn't be the first time I missed something very obvious. Oh well...
It won't kill me to do it this way. Thanks again!!

Hmmm... This gives me an idea. Since it's just a text file, I could write
a quick program that monitored the date and time of the .suo file of my projects
(which changes when I Save All) and alter the version information in the
AssemblyInfo.vb file accordingly based on the last build file's date and
time. Only thing is I would have to save the project before creating the
build but I nearly always do this anyway unless I'm just testing something.

Sorry for the rambling... Just thinking out loud...


"Paul Mc" <paulmc@nospam.thehub.com.au> wrote:
>
>G'day Howie
>
>>I'm new to VB.NET and can't for the life of me figure out where to change
>>the project's version information. Anyone know?
>
>Look in the AssemblyInfo.vb file...
>
>Cheers,
>Paul

[Paul Mc]

G'day Howie.

>And as far as I can tell there is no way to auto-increment for each build
>like in VB6 (or even alter this information from within the IDE).

Actually, you can use the * to set an auto-incrementing section of the version.

For example:

<Assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.*")>

Will increment the version from 1.0.0.530 to 1.0.0.531 when you build etc.

HTH,
Cheers,
Paul

[Howie Goodson]

"Paul Mc" <paulmc@nospam.thehub.com.au> wrote:
>
>G'day Howie.
>
>>And as far as I can tell there is no way to auto-increment for each build
>>like in VB6 (or even alter this information from within the IDE).
>
>Actually, you can use the * to set an auto-incrementing section of the version.
>
>For example:
>
><Assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.*")>
>
>Will increment the version from 1.0.0.530 to 1.0.0.531 when you build etc.
>
>HTH,
>Cheers,
>Paul

Thanks Paul. I tried that but it kept giving me crazily large numbers that
didn't make any sense or nothing at all (0.0.0.0). I also tested it to see
if it would auto-increment after making changes and rebuilding but it didn't.
The version stayed the same. Then later I opened the project and clicked
rebuild with no changes made and it incremented *boggle*. I need to have
control over and understand the logic behind the version changes. In my mind
it seems like the version should change every time the project is rebuilt
with changes made to the code. I was unable to make this happen predictably
using the *. Also, I don't like the complexity of the default version information.
I don't want to have to ask a user what version he is using and hear him
rattle off 10 digits hehe. Something like 1.0 or 1.1 is far easier for me
to handle. Thanks again for your help!