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Asked: 2026-06-09T12:50:02+00:00

I’m building a .NET 4 application in Visual Studio 2012 and wish to version

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I’m building a .NET 4 application in Visual Studio 2012 and wish to version my .net Assembly in the format.

[assembly: AssemblyInformationalVersion("6.0.1")]
[assembly: AssemblyVersion("6.0.*.0")]

However I get an error when I build of:

Properties\AssemblyInfo.cs(40,12): error CS0647: Error emitting 'System.Reflection.AssemblyVersionAttribute' attribute -- 'The version specified '6.0.*.0' is invalid'

Is this even possible? I noticed that in some Microsoft DLL’s their versioning was in line with this.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Each of the version parts has to be in the range 0 – 65535.

    One way to have a dynamic version string is to declare a public const string in another class (say the VersionClass class) and use that as the version string argument to AssemblyVersion. Then write a script (using say powershell) to recreate VersionClass with any dynamic value of the version string. Run this script as a pre-build event and the VersionClass gets overwritten on every compile.

    Update:
    Here is a tool that simplifies setting the version: http://autobuildversion.codeplex.com/
    I haven’t tried it but it looks like this will handle the scenario you want.

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