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How do you keep user.config settings across different assembly versions in .net?

Basically the problem is that each time the assembly version changes (i.e. the user installs a new version of the application) all their settings are reset the the defaults (or more accurately a new user.config file is created in a folder with a…
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Best practices/guidance for maintaining assembly version numbers

I'm looking for pointers, suggestions, and even dictation on how to manage the three different assembly version numbers for a .NET assembly. The Product version is the simplest, as this seems would normally be dictated by business. Then, the file…
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Binary Deserialization with different assembly version

I have a project which uses BinaryFormatter to serialize a collection of structs with string and bool? datatypes. The serialization/deserialization works fine, however if I were to change the assembly which does the work it fails to deserialize…
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How to get version number in post-build event

I want to use post-build event to automatically create a nuget package and then copy it to a shared folder on our network, something like this (the version number 1.0.0.0. is specified inside the MyLib.nuspec file): nuget.exe pack…
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What causes Assembly Version incrementation when using asterisk?

If I have an assembly version such as: [assembly: AssemblyVersion("2013.7.18.*")] When this version number is read, it will be something like 2013.7.18.123. What causes the incrementation of the final number?
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MSBuild: How to read Assembly Version and FIle Version from AssmeblyInfo.cs?

Using MSBuild script how can we get AssmeblyVersion and FileVersion from AssemblyInfo.cs?
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Get assembly version of another project (.exe)

I have source code of two C# projects. Project A starts project B (process.Start();). From project B I need to get assembly version of project A.
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How can I get the build number of a Visual Studio project to increment?

Why does building a project in Visual Studio not increment the Build number? I've got this in AssemblyInfo.cs: [assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.5.*")] ...and this in frmAbout's constructor: Version versionInfo =…
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OldVersion="0.0.0.0-x.x.x.x" is not accepting in WebConfig file

I have given this in my web config file…
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AssemblyInfo build number not updated

I have the following code in AssemblyInfo.cs: [assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")] [assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("1.0.0.0")] I'm trying to make sure the Build Number changes each time I build/rebuild my project. But, in that case it doesn't. Only…
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Change assembly version of another .EXE

How to change from one project, assembly version of another project (.exe)? I have source for both projects.
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Should I auto-increment the assembly version when I build my software?

In Visual Studio 2003, you could easily set your project assembly to auto-increment every time you built it, but with Visual Studio 2005, this functionality was removed. You can still auto-increment your assembly version on every build, but it's a…
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Changing AssemblyVersion Stop project Compiling

Having a very odd error when compiling me solution. I have a solution with about 19 projects, we control the AssemblyVersion, and AssemblyFileVersion using a shared AssemblyInfo.cs this keeps all our version inline when building a release. This has…
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Is it appropriate to use leading zero in C# assembly version?

I am setting assembly version for my dot net dll Assmebly version has below format, "major version.minor version.build number.revision" I am setting Verison like below, 200.1.1.0; Now my question is do I need to keep a leading zero in minor…
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Third party components referencing different versions of the same assembly

In my project I'm using two different third party components. I don't have access to the source code of these components. Each component is referencing a different version of the same DLL assembly log4net. In particular component A is referencing…
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