.NET: Large revision numbers in AssemblyVersionAttribute

Question

We have the convention of versioning our builds as [major].[minor].[micro].[revision], e.g. 2.1.2.33546.

Our build-script automatically updates an AssemblyInfo.cs file c

Answer 1

We decided to use the same convention, and due to the limitations of Windows version numbers we chose to drop the "micro" part of our version numbers in order to preserve the revision number. Our version numbers are now [major].[minor].[revision / 10000].[revision % 10000], so the assemblies built from revision 65535 have the version 2.01.6.5535.