Could this work on .NET projects?

I know most of this is dependent on your git commits. But where it tracks your version depends on if you have a package.json or composer.json. So what if you wanted to use standard-version on a .NET C#, VB.net, or even SQL project? These projects use a .vbproj, .csproj, .sqlproj, file for tracking version numbers. Is there a possibility of standard-version supporting these types of projects too?

[Yanal-Yves]

You could use a custom updater. Here’s what I did for my .net core 3.1 C# projects:

1. In the same folder as your .versionrc file, add a file named dotnet-version-updater.js:

module.exports.readVersion = function (contents) {
  const regEx = /<Version>(.*)<\/Version>/g;
  const arr = regEx.exec(contents);
  if (arr !== null && arr.length === 2) {
    return arr[1];
  }

  return "";
}

module.exports.writeVersion = function (contents, version) {
  return contents.replace(/<Version>.*<\/Version>/, '<Version>' + version + '</Version>');
}

1. Then in your .versionrc file:

{
...
  "bumpFiles": [
      ...
      { "filename": "PATH_TO_YOUR_CSPROJ_1", "updater":"dotnet-version-updater.js" },
      { "filename": "PATH_TO_YOUR_CSPROJ_2", "updater":"dotnet-version-updater.js" },
      ...
      { "filename": "PATH_TO_YOUR_CSPROJ_N", "updater":"dotnet-version-updater.js" },
      ...
  ]
  ...
}

1. Make sure all your .csproj files have a Version tag, ex:

  <PropertyGroup>
    <TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
    <Version>1.2.3</Version>
  </PropertyGroup>

The dotnet-version-updater.js is simply using a regex, so if the Version tag doesn’t exist, it won’t be able to bump the file and won’t create the Version tag. One improvment would be to make dotnet-version-updater.js add the Version tag if it doesn’t exist.

I hope that helps.

[jbottigliero]

Hey! Thanks for the report. This has been asked for a few times (in slightly different ways), it’s a feature (support for any file/project type) that I’d love to get implemented and have started to work toward in #372