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[Nautilus]

Greetings,
is there a way to have the VS2005 compiler auto-increment the Build number in a VS_VERSION_FILE block every time I compile?
1.0.0.1 --> 1.0.0.2 --//--> 1.0.0.59 ...

I know it's a trivial question :lol: but I've seen the old VB6 IDE doing it, and I find it strange that the feature is absent in VS2005.

Thanks,
Ciao ciao : )

[Nautilus]

Hey hey, not all together, please!

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I should say Thanks anyway.....

[Nils Pipenbrinck]

Nautilus:

Code yourself a 10 liner that will write a c-code that defines the current version/build number as a char array. Apply that tool as a custom building step on a source file defining the current build-id. It can be anything, a text-file, or a 4 byte binary thing. Whatever you like.

Make sure you change the input file time-stamp way back in the past (1.1. 1970 comes to mind). This is the key that DevEnv or make will trigger your tool during each build and generate a new id.

It is a dirty hack, but unfortunately no compiler I know of offers a cleaner way to generate such "everyone should have em"-build timestamps.