You’re on the right track with the MSBuild Extension Pack. I find the easiest way to conditionally generate the assembly details at build time is to add an “AssemblyVersion” target directly to my .csproj file(s) that require an updated AssemblyInfo file. You can add the target directly to each csproj file that requires an updated … Read more
As you’ve already noticed, you can control most of these settings in .csproj. If you’d rather keep these in AssemblyInfo.cs, you can turn off auto-generated assembly attributes. <PropertyGroup> <GenerateAssemblyInfo>false</GenerateAssemblyInfo> </PropertyGroup> If you want to see what’s going on under the hood, checkout Microsoft.NET.GenerateAssemblyInfo.targets inside of Microsoft.NET.Sdk.
In visual Studio 2008, the following works. Find the AssemblyInfo.cs file and find these 2 lines: [assembly: AssemblyVersion(“1.0.0.0”)] [assembly: AssemblyFileVersion(“1.0.0.0”)] You could try changing this to: [assembly: AssemblyVersion(“1.0.*”)] [assembly: AssemblyFileVersion(“1.0.*”)] But this won’t give you the desired result, you will end up with a Product Version of 1.0.* and a File Version of 1.0.0.0. Not … Read more