Question

I have several deployment projects. In order to deploy an application, I need to do several tasks, one of them is to change each deployment project’s product version and product code.

I can’t find a way to programmatically change them.

Since it’s a Deployment project (which finally produces an executable installer), I’m not able to work with MSBuild, instead I’m using the Devenv from the command prompt.

Answer 1

I was searching for the exact same thing today. I found this using google:

static void Main(string[] args)  {     string setupFileName = @'<Replace the path to vdproj file>';      StreamReader reader = File.OpenText(setupFileName);      string file = string.Empty;       try      {          Regex expression = new Regex(@'(?:\''ProductCode\'' =          \''8.){([\d\w-]+)}');          Regex expression1 = new Regex(@'(?:\''UpgradeCode\'' =          \''8.){([\d\w-]+)}');          file = reader.ReadToEnd();           file = expression.Replace(file, '\'ProductCode\' = \'8:{' +          Guid.NewGuid().ToString().ToUpper() + '}');          file = expression1.Replace(file, '\'UpgradeCode\' = \'8:{'          + Guid.NewGuid().ToString().ToUpper() + '}');      }      finally      {          // Close the file otherwise the compile may not work          reader.Close();      }       TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(setupFileName);      try      {          tw.Write(file);      }      finally      {          // close the stream          tw.Close();      }   }