Add a file version

[lovettchris]

Can you add a file version either to the assembly on disk, or to the help output, so that I can automate upgrading the tool to a specific version? Notice there is no file version on this command line:

d:\git\foundry99\Coyote>filever d:\git\foundry99\Coyote\packages\xmldocmd.exe
--a-- W32x64   -   -               -   -    137,728 02-19-2020 xmldocmd.exe

and here:

[ejball]

Where did that xmldocmd.exe come from? The file in my .dotnet\tools directory (after running dotnet tool install xmldocmd -g) has a file version as expected.

Generally speaking, dotnet tool is used to install and update xmldocmd, which uses NuGet versioning, not file or assembly versions.

[lovettchris]

It is the program that was installed by using "dotnet tool install -g xmldocmd". it might be as simple as adding this to the xmldocmd.csproj?

<Version>2.1.0</Version>

[bgrainger]

When I run dotnet tool install -g xmldocmd it installs version 2.0.2.184 into %USERPROFILE%\.dotnet\tools (and all the file version information is present).

How are you ending up with a copy of the EXE in d:\git\foundry99\Coyote\packages?

[lovettchris]

Oh, right, that's just using the --tool-path option instead of -g. But dotnet knows the version if you run "dotnet tool list --g", so I can use this for now if you don't want to fix the assembly/file version.

[bgrainger]

The latest version of xmldocmd.exe is 170,496 bytes; is it possible you just have a very old version installed (that's lacking version information)?

if you don't want to fix the assembly/file version

Running dotnet tool install -g xmldocmd installs a version that contains file version information. I'm not sure what there is to fix.

[lovettchris]

How strange, when I do this:

dotnet tool uninstall xmldocmd -g
dotnet tool install xmldocmd -g

I see the file in C:\Users\Chris.dotnet\tools\ has no version info -- File version is blank...

Perhaps the difference is the version of dotnet I'm using which is 2.2.402. What do you use ?

[bgrainger]

I'm using 3.1.100. .NET Core 2.2 is EOL (https://dotnet.microsoft.com/platform/support/policy/dotnet-core#lifecycle) so I'd recommend updating to 3.1 (LTS).

[lovettchris]

Ok, thanks, I'll close this item then.