[Opensim-dev] Assembly version

[Sean Dague]

On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 03:07:14PM +0200, Tleiades wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have noticed that quite a few of the dynamically loaded assemblies have a 
> version property, and that the version string is hard-coded, making the 
> maintenance of this version information manual, and error prone.
> 
> Why don't we use the AssemblyVersion property in the assemblyinfo.cs file? 
> and then have subversion maintain and update the information, either on 
> check in or out.
> 
> The following is a piece of code, which can extract the version information 
> using reflection.
> 
> public string getVersion()
> {
>  System.Reflection.Module module = this.GetType().Module;
>  string dllName = module.Assembly.ManifestModule.Name;
>  Version dllVersion = module.Assembly.GetName().Version;
> 
>  return string.Format("{0}.{1}.{2}.{3}", dllVersion.Major, dllVersion.Minor, 
> dllVersion.Build, dllVersion.Revision);
> }
> 
> /tleiades 

+1 on this idea.

      -Sean

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