Month: March 2011

From scavaging the around the web, I pieced together the follow steps to setup TortiseSVN’s revision number (aka subwcrev) and time stamp as part of the assembly version.

1. Copy the existing Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs file to a file named AssemblyInfo.template
2. Edit the file, changing to the following:
   
   C#

   [assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.$WCREV$")] [assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("1.0.0.$WCREV$")]

   1 2	[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.$WCREV$")] [assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("1.0.0.$WCREV$")]

3. Edit the Project properties, adding the following Pre-Build events:
   
   Shell

   cd "$(ProjectDir)" SubWCRev . "Properties\AssemblyInfo.template" "Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs"

   1 2	cd "$(ProjectDir)" SubWCRev . "Properties\AssemblyInfo.template" "Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs"

4. Build your code, and display the assembly version info with the following snippet:
   
   C#

   this.Text += "- " + Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version.ToString();

   1	this.Text += "- " + Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version.ToString();