How to use Svn Version Task to set the Version of a vb project
- by SchlaWiener
I have a Visual Studio 2008 Solution where the main output exe is a VB.Net Winforms exe which has several VB.Net and C# dll's linked from the same solution. The whole solution is under version control with subversion.
Now I want to automagically update by generated files with the current svn revision number.
For this purpose I found this neat project: http://svnversiontasks.codeplex.com/
You also need the MSBuild.Communuity.Tasks for this to work.
There was a msbuild example on how to update the rev number for every single project in your solution which I use:
<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath)\SvnTools.Targets\SvnTools.Tasks.VersionManagement.Tasks" />
<Target Name="build">
<CreateItem Include="../**/AssemblyInfo.vb;../**/AssemblyInfo.cs;../**/Properties/AssemblyInfo.cs">
<Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="AssemblyInfoFiles" />
</CreateItem>
<CreateItem Include="../**/*.vdproj;*.vdproj">
<Output TaskParameter="Include" ItemName="DeploymentProjectFiles" />
</CreateItem>
<UpdateVersion AssemblyInfoFiles="@(AssemblyInfoFiles)" DeploymentProjectFiles="@(DeploymentProjectFiles)" Format="yyyy.mm.dd.rev" />
<Exec Command=""$(VS90COMNTOOLS)..\IDE\devenv" ..\MyApp.sln /build" />
<RevertVersionChange AssemblyInfoFiles="@(AssemblyInfoFiles)" DeploymentProjectFiles="@(DeploymentProjectFiles)" />
</Target>
I modified the original file to also include the AssemblyInfo.vb file and saved it as a msbuild.proj file.
However if I execute msbuild from the console I see that the C# projects are updated (I can also confirm that from the properties of the output dll but my vb project remains unchanged:
Reverting version number change: ../App1\AssemblyInfo.vb
Updating version number (to rev 0) for file: ../App1\AssemblyInfo.vb
D:\Source\MyApp\MyAppDeploy\MyAppDeploy.csproj : warning : Version attribute not found, file not updated.
Reverting version number change: ../App2\Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs
Updating version number (to rev 0) for file: ../App2\Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs
Successfully updated file.
Maybe the task does not support VB.Net.
But maybe someone has a solution for this...
