Assembly Patching

[Knaackee]

Do someone know if Assembly Patching does work? Cant get it work.

Thanks in advance!

[sliekens]

No, all assembly info is generated based on what it says in the project.json files. The assembly patching in AppVeyor runs before any assembly info code generation takes place.

[Knaackee]

Hmm, ok. So does that mean you cant have an auto increment of the verions number besides the version prefix ?

Thanks for your help

[sliekens]

I'm not sure but I think you can control the version info using environment variables

• DOTNET_BUILD_VERSION: can be used instead of setting --version-suffix on the cmdline
• DOTNET_ASSEMBLY_FILE_VERSION: has no cmdline equivalent?

It's not clear if DOTNET_BUILD_VERSION should contain only the suffix or the entire version string.

You might try something like this:

ps: $Env:DOTNET_BUILD_VERSION = "1.0.$Env:APPVEYOR_BUILD_NUMBER-CI"
ps: $Env:DOTNET_ASSEMBLY_FILE_VERSION = "1.0.$Env:APPVEYOR_BUILD_NUMBER"

[Knaackee]

I test that out and report back soon.

[Knaackee]

I am getting

The assembly file version is invalid: 1.0..51

[sliekens]

I forgot that assembly versions have 4 components instead of 3. It's interesting that dotnet parses it as 1.0.<empty>.51.

Try setting all 4 components: 1.0.0.$Env:APPVEYOR_BUILD_NUMBER

[Knaackee]

already tried it with no luck :)

I found where the exception happend

https://github.com/borgdylan/dotnet-cli/blob/master/src/Microsoft.DotNet.ProjectModel/ProjectReader.cs#L139

[sliekens]

@dknaack did you figure out a solution?