Using Jenkins Version Environment Variable in the MSBuild step

Question

I\'m currently using the Jenkins \"Version Number Plug-In\" to set an Environment Variable for build version. This works fine within jenkins but i need a way to pass this to MSB

Answer 1

A very quick work around to this is to create a powershell task before your msbuild task. This is assuming you defined VERSION variable as above (without the %%). And you checked delete workspace before build starts.

This is the code for the powershell task.

gci -rec -Filter *AssemblyInfo* | ForEach { (Get-Content $_.FullName) | ForEach-Object {$_ -replace "1.0.0.0",$env:VERSION } | Set-Content $_.FullName}