Problem with setting DLL version with MSBuild

Question

I am trying to set DLL version while building C++ (unmanaged) DLL with MSBuild/VS2005. Here is the command line:
MsBuild.exe ${BuildSrc}\MyApp.sln /t:Rebuild /p:Configuration=Release /property:ApplicationVersion=1.2.3.5

It builds the DLL but unfortunately it doesn’t change the version. Can you help me with that?

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Yury P

Answer 1

Hello Yury,

Welcome to MSDN forum.

Before Dev10(Visual Studio 2010), VC++ project is not a MSBuild formatted project and cannot be built by MSBuild engine, MSBuild just delegates the build of C++ projects to VCBuild. So we cannot set the DLL version like /property:ApplicationVersion=1.2.3.5, Which is a MSBuild format.

More information
http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/archive/2008/11/20/printf-hello-msbuild-n.aspx

Regards,
Rong-Chun Zhang
MSDN Subscriber Support in Forum
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Answer 2

Hello

Have you got any progress on this issue? If there is anything else we can help, welcome to post here.

Regards,
Rong-Chun Zhang
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