Setting 'Major' and 'Minor' VS2005 version assembly fields only

[mweinberger]

Is it possible to update the 'major' and 'minor' (the first two) version fields only but leave the last two (build number and revision) alone? I already have my VS2005 project set up in such a way that the project itself updates the last two fields automatically at build time.

I'd like a way to set using Visual Build Professional the first two fields to the major and minor values as set by the projecct macro values that I have set.

Thank you very much and a pre Happy New Year.

Martin

[mweinberger]

Microsoft created an AssemblyInfoTask add-on that allows for the automatic increment of the build and revision numbers. It also allows for the manual setting of the major and minor version numbers in the project file. I just didn't realize to add:

<PropertyGroup>
<AssemblyMajorVersion>8</AssemblyMajorVersion>
<AssemblyMinorVersion>0</AssemblyMinorVersion>
<AssemblyFileMajorVersion>8</AssemblyFileMajorVersion>
<AssemblyFileMinorVersion>0</AssemblyFileMinorVersion>
</PropertyGroup>

the <PropertyGroup> portion. The solution is to "update" this file at that section to set the appropriate major and minor version numbers.

Cool!

The path for all that are interested is:

http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=93d23e13-c653-4815-9e79-16107919f93e

I hope this helps.

Martin A. Weinberger
Butterflyvista
http://www.butterflyvista.com/