Nightly build for VB.NET program, Versioning

Question

I currently have a nightly build system running as a windows scheduled task, calling at batch file, that works sort of like this:

• Check out the latest revision from subversion
• Modify the AssemblyInfo.vb file of the main executable and the librarys to set the version number to 0.0.0.revision
• Invoke MSBuild to build everything (including the installer)
• Upload the installer and a log of the build to an FTP server

This works ok, but step 2 is dirty and fragile, and I can't imagine that this the only way to do what I want. Any ideas?

Answer 1

There are a couple of ways to deal with this. You may want to check this post or others tagged with svn (and containing "AssemblyInfo").