Read AV Build Number from source file

jezz.santos

02 Jan, 2016 11:04 PM

Is it possible to set the AV build version by reading it from an AssemblyInfo.cs file (from repo at the solution level)?

If so, any examples? When, how?

  1. #1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner Support staff on 02 Jan, 2016 11:13 PM

    Yes, that's possible. Take a look at this thread: http://help.appveyor.com/discussions/problems/3076-nuget-package-version-with-update-appveyorbuild
    Example from that thread how to read version from AssemblyInfo.cs: https://gist.github.com/FeodorFitsner/e038821e3e46e3df0e8f

    -Feodor

  2. #2 Posted by jezz.santos on 05 Jan, 2016 08:16 AM

    Hey Feodor,

    I am going to need your help here. I am not so good with ps commands.
    Can you help me with the PS that will go in my YML file

    This is what I want to do:
    1. First, I want to read the string value from the AssemblyInformationVersion attribute, which is in my GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs file which lives at the path src\GlobalAssemblyInfo. (It is a 2 dot version number)
    2. Then I want to add the AV build number APPVEYOR_BUILD_NUMBER to the end of that (with another dot), then set that as the AV APPVEYOR_BUILD_VERSION number.

    Then I am going to use this to set the AssemblyFileVersion attribute:

    assembly_info:
  patch: true
  file: src\GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs
  assembly_file_version: '{version}'

  3. #3 Posted by jezz.santos on 06 Jan, 2016 10:29 PM

    Hi Feodor, sorry I know you are busy, just let me know if you are able to help me on this one, or if you can't?

  4. #4 Posted by Feodor Fitsner Support staff on 06 Jan, 2016 11:07 PM

    Hi Jezz,

    Sure, I've been working on the script. I didn't realize from the start that there is only one "global" assemblyinfo file (I guess it's linked to all projects) and you don't have to use built-in assembly patcher at all. Instead, you can do all the job in a simple PowerShell called on install phase when sources are there: https://gist.github.com/FeodorFitsner/82dad08650d72268e48d

  5. #5 Posted by jezz.santos on 07 Jan, 2016 12:11 AM

    Hey Feodor,

    thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

    Yes, just one GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs in the repo, and linked into every project.

    Love your work, saved me.

  6. #6 Posted by jezz.santos on 10 Jan, 2016 04:47 AM

    Hey Feodor,

    I used almost all the script you wrote, except the bit that writes back the version number. The bit that sets the version of the build is great! thanks.

    I wanted to write the final $version into the AssemblyFileVersion attribute, not the 'AssemblyInformationalVersion` attribute.
    And then, I may want to make a commit on that to save it back to the github repo, with a specific commit message.

    Is that kind of stuff easy?

  7. #7 Posted by Feodor Fitsner Support staff on 10 Jan, 2016 07:12 AM

    You can easily adopt regex in the script to update AssemblyFileVersion.

    For pushing changes into repository take a look at this article: http://www.appveyor.com/docs/how-to/git-push

  8. jezz.santos closed this discussion on 11 Jan, 2016 08:14 AM.

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