Application version management

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phbernard

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Hi,

I can't find out how to manage my VB .NET application version. I would like to set its major/minor version numbers and diplay in a "About dialog" something like "This is product version <major>.<minor>.<build>". I almost expect VB to give me the build number.

I had a look to Application.ProductVersion, but I don't know where <major> and <minor> come from.

I'm really sorry to ask such question on a forum, because this seems to be a really usual task, but I can't find anything interesting about it. All I need is probably a link to the web page page called "VB .NET Application Version quick and easy"


Best regards,

Philippe
 
These are set in your assembly file... look in it... somewhere you'll see all that stuff... major/minor/description/etc.
 
Thank you for your answer.

In fact, I already had a look at this. I can get major/minor/build by using System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly.Location).FileMajorPart/FileMinorPart/FileBuildPart.

MajorPart and MinorPart are set to 1 and 0 respectively. Ok, I guess that MSVS set them for me when I created the project. But how can I change them ?

Moreover, BuildPart doesn't seem to be incremented when I re-build my project (its value is 1491).


So now that I have a version, how can I use it ? :)


Philippe
 
You can change them by editing the AssemblyInfo.vb file. It SHOULD be there in the solution explorer.

Visual Basic: 
' Version information for an assembly consists of the following four values:
'
'      Major Version
'      Minor Version 
'      Build Number
'      Revision
'
' You can specify all the values or you can default the Build and Revision Numbers 
' by using the '*' as shown below:

<Assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")>
 
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