Do I need AssemblyInfo while working with .NET Core?

Question

Previously, AssemblyInfo.cs file was autocreated by Visual Studio to contain assembly-wide attributes, like AssemblyVersion, AssemblyName and so on.

In .NET

Answer 1

project.json has replaced the AssemblyInfo.

AssemblyVersionAttribute is replaced by version property

version
Type: String
The Semver version of the project, also used for the NuGet package.

AssemblyNameAttribute is now the name property

name
Type: String
The name of the project, used for the assembly name as well as the name of the package. The top level folder name is used if this property is not specified.

and so on

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Update: With the announcement of .NET Core Tools MSBuild, the .csproj has replaced the project.json. The AssemblyInfo.cs file is back, but most of the settings have been moved directly to .csproj. See related SO question for more details: Equivalent to AssemblyInfo in dotnet core/csproj :

  
    net461
    1.2.3.4
    Author 1
    Company XYZ
    Product 2
    MyApp
    2.0.0.0
    3.0.0.0
    en
    Description here
    Copyright
    License URL
    Project URL
    Icon URL
    Repo URL
    Repo type
    Tags
    Release