Programmatically change the AssemblyVersion and AssemblyFileVersion attributes
.net, attributes, c#, versioninfo
Solution
Why don't you, during build process, read the `AssemblyVersion` and `AssemblyFileVersion` of one DLL, and save it back to other csproject's `AssemblyInfo.cs`, only then compile it?
As a matter of fact, I don't know whether it is possible to modify the DLL file directly, without resorting to something fanciful.
Or alternatively, make sure that all your DLLs share one common `AssemblyInfo.cs`. You can do this by adding the `AssemblyInfo.cs` as "Add As Link" when you add a new item in csproject. In this way when you do a compilation, all the DLLs will share the same `AssemblyInfo.cs`, and thus output the same `AssemblyVersion`.
Problem
During a setup creation process, I am planning to do the following (within a C# Script): - Read the `AssemblyVersion` and `AssemblyFileVersion` attribute values of one DLL. - Iterate all DLLs and executables in the project and apply those version to their `AssemblyVersion` and `AssemblyFileVersion` attribute values. Question now is: How to do step 2? I successfully can do step 1, but for step 2 I don't see a real start point. What I probably have to do is to use some native P/Invoke methods since the attributes directly modify the version information resource information of a DLL/executable. Any hints on this?