Question

I have an MSBuild file that manipulates the AssemblyInfo file before the application is compiled. At the end of the build, it restores the AssemblyInfo file. It does this by backing up the file, manipulating it, and then after build time, restoring the file.

This works fairly well except when an error occurs during the build. It then does not restore the original file. Is there a way I can tell MSBuild to execute a target at the end of a build no matter if it succeeded or failed?

Answer 1

What about changing the problem:

• Add a “template” AssemblyInfo.cs.template to version control that represents your “ideal” AssemblyInfo.cs with regex hooks in there
• Before build, copy the template to the real and apply your regexes
• Add some kind of subversion ignore for AssemblyInfo.cs (I’m no svn expert, but I’m pretty sure there is a way you can tell it to ignore certain files)
• In the event that your devs need to add some kind of customization that would normally appear in an AssemblyInfo.cs (eg InternalsVisibleTo), then get them to add it to a different .cs file that IS checked in.

As a further refinement, combine Sayed’s solution with mine and remove version info stuff from the actual AssemblyInfo.cs and have a VersionInfo.cs.template that is checked in, that creates a VersionInfo.cs in BeforeBuild.