Wizz's Coding Solutions » Assembly http://rainstorms.me.uk/blog Problems that I come across in day to day coding Thu, 07 Jul 2011 07:50:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Getting Public Key Token of Assembly Within Visual Studio – Kirk Evans Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs http://rainstorms.me.uk/blog/2010/09/03/getting-public-key-token-of-assembly-within-visual-studio-kirk-evans-blog-site-home-msdn-blogs/ http://rainstorms.me.uk/blog/2010/09/03/getting-public-key-token-of-assembly-within-visual-studio-kirk-evans-blog-site-home-msdn-blogs/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:22:43 +0000 wizzard http://rainstorms.me.uk/blog/?p=340 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> Very useful tip – sometimes you need the public key for referencing the assembly in things like web.config – see Getting Public Key Token of Assembly Within Visual Studio – Kirk Evans Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

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]]> http://rainstorms.me.uk/blog/2010/09/03/getting-public-key-token-of-assembly-within-visual-studio-kirk-evans-blog-site-home-msdn-blogs/feed/ 0 Assembly Build and Revision Numbers http://rainstorms.me.uk/blog/2009/03/23/assembly-build-and-revision-numbers/ http://rainstorms.me.uk/blog/2009/03/23/assembly-build-and-revision-numbers/#comments Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:30:32 +0000 wizzard http://rainstorms.me.uk/blog/?p=125 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> I hadn’t actually realised until last week that assembly build numbers are not automatically incremented on each build. I remember at some point in the past going looking for where Visual Studio was storing them, and being very confused as to how it managed to increment the build number without checking out any files in source control.

Last week I discovered that build numbers are actually based on the date – it is the number of days since a date specified in the registry (I think 1st Jan 2000 by default). For example, today’s build number with the default date is 3369. Since this behaviour can be a little annoying if you release multiple builds per day and your users refer to the build number, people have come up with various different solutions. I’ve found this one on CodeProject, but I haven’t actually tried it.

Revision numbers, on the other hand are related to the time of day.  I’ve heard various different reports that they are the number of seconds since midnight, or half that, or a random number.  Experimentally, they do seem to be related to the time, but I haven’t played around for long enough to work out the exact relationship.  I’m also not sure what time zone is used to work this out – it may be the computer clock or it might be UTC or something else.  Anyone who has bothered to actually do this, please feel free to post and let us know!

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