Assembly to contain file description BranchName_Timestamp_Changeset

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I want assemblies that are built in queue in build machine to have custom assembly details which helps us track in finding bugs. Ex I want file description of assembly to contain BranchName_Timestamp.rev_Changeset ex Live_20120301.7_12345

Do you build it on a TFS build server? – abatishchev Apr 20 '12 at 12:42 — abatishchev, Apr 20 '12 at 12:42
yes we build on TFS build server – Suresh Balaji Apr 20 '12 at 12:53 — Suresh Balaji, Apr 20 '12 at 12:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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See my answer in this post. Basically the best way is to index the sources with TFS. It's simple and you can debug easily (as long as you have the PDB along with the DLL/EXE)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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answered Apr 20 '12 at 12:39

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

To get the timespam:

http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/

<UsingTask AssemblyFile="$(MSBuildCommunityTasksLib)" TaskName="MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Time" />

<MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Time Format="MM.dd.yyyy.HH.mm">
  <Output TaskParameter="FormattedTime" PropertyName="_time_spam" />
</MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Time>

To get the latest changeset:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/10252772/1268570

To get the name of the current branch:

You could check the following link

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dcbx5yce.aspx

Actually i have not tried to get the name of the current branch, the way we work is with labels instead of adding the name of the branch we add the name of the label and we label every time we release a new version, if you are interested in this approach, I built this functionality in NCastor AutoBuilder (I am planning a release in about one week):

https://github.com/jupaol/NCastor/tree/develop/Solutions/NCastor.AutoBuilder/NCastor.AutoBuilder.Runner/Targets/Labels

Putting all together:

<PropertyGroup>
  <InformationalVersion>$(SemanticVersion) $(BranchName)_$(_time_spam).rev_$(TFSRevisionVersion)</InformationalVersion>
</PropertyGroup>

<UsingTask AssemblyFile="$(MSBuildCommunityTasksLib)" TaskName="MSBuild.Community.Tasks.AssemblyInfo" />

<MSBuild.Community.tasks.AssemblyInfo OutputFile="$(AssemblyVersionFilePath)"
          CodeLanguage="C#"
          AssemblyFileVersion="$(FileVersion)"
          AssemblyInformationalVersion="$(InformationalVersion)"
          AssemblyVersion="$(SemanticVersion)" />

Hi thanks a lot. I am checking out the answer. I will let you know once i complete — Suresh Balaji, Apr 23 '12 at 05:47

Assembly to contain file description BranchName_Timestamp_Changeset

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