How does AssemblyInfo get versioned during build?

Timothy Sullivan

In C# projects there is an AssemblyInfo.cs file which controls the versions for the assembly. When a build is queued in TFS there is a process that runs that updates a line similiar to the following by using the current release, iteration and build numbers:

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.0")]

How exactly does CM do this? Is it a custom script in the build or is it a command on the MSBuild task? Looking at the logs the only this I see dealing with AssemblyInfo is that it removes the read-only attribute.

AfterGet:
Attrib -R AssemblyInfo.* /S

Timothy Sullivan

After getting access to a build box, it appears CM drops a file called TeamBuildParam.xml that is used to specify build parameters. This file parameters including the contains the major and minor version for the build.




majorVersion
24


minorVersion
0



startNumber
0




I am not sure if the *buildNumers* task is custom or built into to MSBuild.