How can I retrieve major/minor/build/revision number on build events

Question

Hy there!

I'm using this piece of code, to copy some files on post-build-event:

<PropertyGroup>
    <DemoPath1>..\demoPath1</DemoPath1>
</PropertyGroup>
<Target Name="AfterBuild">
    <Exec Command="robocopy $(ProjectDir)$(DemoPath1) $(ProjectDir)demoPath2/$(Revision) * /XD .svn _svn /XF *.cs /S" IgnoreExitCode="true" />
</Target>

As you can see, I would like to use $(Revision) - obviously, this is not going to work ...

Can anybody help me out?

@mods: I dunno exactly which tag to use ... on the one hand it's msbuild, on the other one visual studio ...? feel free to edit!

Answer 1

The easiest way is:

<GetAssemblyIdentity AssemblyFiles="$(TargetPath)">
  <Output TaskParameter="Assemblies" ItemName="AssemblyVersion" />
</GetAssemblyIdentity>

and I've used it this way:

<Exec Command="robocopy $(ProjectDir)$(SomeProperty) $(ProjectDir)somePath/%(AssemblyVersion.Version) * /S" IgnoreExitCode="true" />

Answer 2

You left out of your question where you want to get the version number from. However you get it, all you need to do is populate the $(Revision) property yourself. Give a little more detail and I can probably help you out.