Note: Although quite a lot of this post is about using SVN data in versioning, the idea of using the AssemblyFileVersion works with other systems too

Knowing what version of your code is running is important. Last year I was working on a product where the build process actually put the SVN revision number into a constant in a file – which was then compiled into the assembly – and then the product displayed that version on various configuration pages. This was cool, ‘cos it made it very easy to tie the version of a customer’s code that had a problem to a revision in SubVersion. It proved really bloody useful – the number of times that the ‘latest version, which had definitely been installed’ hadn’t been was … surprising. Thus, I promised that I would do similar in my solutions. However, putting the revision number into a file full of constants seemed … untidy. Continue reading “Assembly Versioning in SharePoint” →