automatically update Windows form version

[daimous]

hi guys! is it posible for me to update the version of my windows form each time I publish it?

[vbcode1980]

Can you elaborate on that? What do you mean with 'updating the version of your windows form'?

[jmcilhinney]

Do you actually mean "publish", as in create a ClickOnce installer? If so then there's an option to increment the revision number on the Publish tab of the project properties and it's checked by default. If you mean something else then you'd need to specify, and also be careful about using terms that have specific meaning without clarification.

[daimous]

Sorry for that.. becuase im on a hurry when i post that question. anyway, what I mean of that is the product version of my Windows form and not the version of the publish, the one that being return by Application.ProductVersion.

[Buoy]

It's stored in the AssemblyInfo file. By default it's 1.0.0.0, but you can put asterisks in there to have it automatically updated, e.g. [assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.*")]

[jmcilhinney]

I've seen several posts explain how to set the assembly version programmatically, although I can't remember how to do it exactly. It would involve a VS macro or some other form of VS extension I would assume. Note also that Setup projects allow you to specify prebuild actions, one of which could be incrmenting the version number, while ClickOnce publishing doesn't as far as I'm aware. That means that you'd have to invoke your macro manually from the tool bar or menu system before publishing.

[daimous]

i'll try that buoy and i'll try to look for it jm...Thanks for the inputs guys!