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.NET Core "Assembly Information File" should give a better indication of how assembly info is stored now

See original GitHub issue

The contents of the .NET Core Assembly Information File template is the following:

using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

// General Information about an assembly is controlled through the following 
// set of attributes. Change these attribute values to modify the information
// associated with an assembly.
// [assembly: AssemblyTitle("WindowsFormsApp8")]
// [assembly: AssemblyDescription("")]
// [assembly: AssemblyConfiguration("")]
// [assembly: AssemblyCompany("")]
// [assembly: AssemblyProduct("WindowsFormsApp8")]
// [assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright ©  2019")]
// [assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")]
// [assembly: AssemblyCulture("")]

// Setting ComVisible to false makes the types in this assembly not visible 
// to COM components.  If you need to access a type in this assembly from 
// COM, set the ComVisible attribute to true on that type.
// [assembly: ComVisible(false)]

// The following GUID is for the ID of the typelib if this project is exposed to COM
// [assembly: Guid("b72c1634-c91c-4f85-8224-0e3d9a8bfc83")]

// Version information for an assembly consists of the following four values:
//
//      Major Version
//      Minor Version 
//      Build Number
//      Revision
//
// [assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.0")]
// [assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("1.0.0.0")]

This gives the impression that you can just uncomment those attributes, but if you do so you get a very unhelpful error:

Severity	Code	Description	Project	File	Line	Suppression State
Error	CS0579	Duplicate 'AssemblyTitle' attribute	WindowsFormsApp8	C:\Users\davkean\source\repos\WindowsFormsApp8\WindowsFormsApp8\AssemblyInfo5.cs	8	Active

The file should give a better indication that most of this data is now stored in the project, pointing to a doc that documents these.

Issue Analytics

  • State:closed
  • Created 4 years ago
  • Comments:6 (6 by maintainers)

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davkeancommented, Aug 22, 2019

This isn’t a .NET Core template, it’s a “auto-generated AssemblyInfo” template, so we’ll need to fact that in as soon as we start supporting legacy format in CPS. It’s not enough to indicate that it always applies to CPS.

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davidwengiercommented, Oct 3, 2019

Other half has been completed.

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