Comments on: Insert SVN version and Build number in your C# AssemblyInfo file

By: Florent Clairambault

Florent Clairambault — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:20:14 +0000

You have to download MsBuild Community Tasks here : http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/

By: chai

chai — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:12:27 +0000

where can I find MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets?

By: Florent Clairambault

Florent Clairambault — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:25:15 +0000

Most of the people of my blog are coming for this post. I should really find a better solution. Something between the solution of “theKindOfMe” and mine.

It would be great to extract build number and svn revision number and just update the AssemblyVersion file without having to specify each property in the “csproj” file.

I should work on a clean solution to that problem. But that really isn’t fun to do because MSBuild XML language is not really comfortable.

By: Automate adding/using of the SVN revision to/as the version of a .net project, through a build target « theKindOfMe

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:19:53 +0000

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By: Florent Clairambault

Florent Clairambault — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:38:19 +0000

Well, I really don’t know. I have never worked in a so big SVN Repository.

I think it might just generate a number with the $svnRev%65536.

By: wcoenen

wcoenen — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:50:58 +0000

Interesting. But what do you do if the svn revision number goes over 65535 (i.e. the maximum for any of the 4 version number components) ?

By: yorch

yorch — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:49:00 +0000

Thanks, just what I was looking for!
I made a little change on configuration because my SVN binaries are located elsewhere.

1	LocalPath="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)" ToolPath="$(ProgramFiles)\CollabNet Subversion Client">

By: Florent Clairambault

Florent Clairambault — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:33:25 +0000

The easiest way I could find is to add a condition on the SvnVersion tag :

1	LocalPath="$(MSBuildProjectDirectory)" Condition="Exists('$(ProgramFiles)\subversion\bin\svn.exe')">

Your build number will be incremented and your SVN revision number won’t be fetched.

By: Damien

Damien — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 09:31:21 +0000

Hi, thanks for this article,

but does there is a way to compile the application even if SVN is not installed ?

Regards