mpappert Posted October 25, 2002 Posted October 25, 2002 (edited) Are there any third party tools (or IDE hacks) that will provide this functionality? Why MS got rid of it, I'll never know ... Thanks! M. Edited October 25, 2002 by mpappert Quote
*Gurus* Derek Stone Posted October 26, 2002 *Gurus* Posted October 26, 2002 Microsoft didn't get rid of it. You just didn't look hard enough. Open the project's AssemblyInfo.vb file and look towards the bottom. Quote Posting Guidelines
mpappert Posted October 26, 2002 Author Posted October 26, 2002 I know that one can modify the AssemblyInfo.vb file to include the "*" but you can't control it. You can't start with: .Major = 1 .Minor = 0 .Build = 0 .Revision = 0 and increment the build number per "compile" ... it seems to generate the build number using the date and revision is maybe a timestamp of sorts? Not sure ... maybe its random ... In the book 'Practical Standards for Microsoft Visual Basic .NET" the author states "In previous editions of Visual Basic, you could set a flag that caused Visual Basic to increment the build number by one on each successive build. There is no such feature in Visual Basic .NET, so you'll have to add manually updating the version number to your release process" So, I was just wondering if there is an add-on or something that will re-add that functionality ... Thanks! M. Quote
*Gurus* Derek Stone Posted October 26, 2002 *Gurus* Posted October 26, 2002 Build equates to the number of days since Janurary 1, 2000 and revision the number of seconds since midnight. Since you want a strict "up by one" increment you could code a simple function that keeps track of the number of builds in a text file or the registry by increasing the counter in Sub Main or the form's load event. Of course this would require an addition to each project. Quote Posting Guidelines
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