How to programmatically change a project's product version?

Question

I have several deployment projects. In order to deploy an application, I need to do several tasks, one of them is to change each deployment project\'s product version and pr

Answer 1

This may not be quite what you're after, but way back in the mists of time I wrote something called stampver, which can auto-increment a build number directly in the .exe file as a post-build step.

Answer 2

Look into the use of RCS, CVS and/or subversion. I am only familiar with RCS; my understanding is that CVS is based on RCS but more comprehensive. I have read on various boards that subversion is the better, but I have never used it. RCS has been adequate for keeping track of changes and versions on all my documents and software projects.

RCS is here: http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/trinkle/RCS/

CVS is here: http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/

Subversion is here: http://subversion.tigris.org/

Answer 3

I was searching for the exact same thing today. I found this using google:

static void Main(string[] args) 
{
    string setupFileName = @"<Replace the path to vdproj file>"; 
    StreamReader reader = File.OpenText(setupFileName); 
    string file = string.Empty; 

    try 
    { 
        Regex expression = new Regex(@"(?:\""ProductCode\"" = 
        \""8.){([\d\w-]+)}"); 
        Regex expression1 = new Regex(@"(?:\""UpgradeCode\"" = 
        \""8.){([\d\w-]+)}"); 
        file = reader.ReadToEnd(); 

        file = expression.Replace(file, "\"ProductCode\" = \"8:{" + 
        Guid.NewGuid().ToString().ToUpper() + "}"); 
        file = expression1.Replace(file, "\"UpgradeCode\" = \"8:{" 
        + Guid.NewGuid().ToString().ToUpper() + "}"); 
    } 
    finally 
    { 
        // Close the file otherwise the compile may not work 
        reader.Close(); 
    } 

    TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(setupFileName); 
    try 
    { 
        tw.Write(file); 
    } 
    finally 
    { 
        // close the stream 
        tw.Close(); 
    } 
 }

Answer 4

Embedding SVN Revision number at compile time in a Windows app

In my answer to this question, I describe how I accomplish this task using SVN.

Answer 5

Do it from within a batch file?