Increment Version on Build

Increment Version on every build according to configureable rules.

Increment can be enabled by clicking Enable Increment Version on Build on a project's context menu:

This will add

<IncrementVersionOnBuild>1.yyyy.Mdd.Hmm</IncrementVersionOnBuild>

to the project's properties.

The default template can be configured in Visual Studio's options:

Available rules

• Hardcoded integer: use this value for version part
• +: Increment version part by 1
  • You can prefix the + by an integer, then version is reset to this integer, as soon as a higher version part changes, e.g. 0+.
• *: Default version number (only applicable to build and revision, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.reflection.assemblyversionattribute?view=netframework-4.8#remarks)
• >: In order to output TimeSpans, specify an invariant DateTime (MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss), followed by > and the format. Here also TimeSpan's properties are supported. Examples:
  • 01/01/2000>%d will output days since January 1st 2000 (same like * in default version build).
  • 00:00>TotalSeconds will output seconds since midnight.
• strings will be used to format current DateTime, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.datetime.tostring