Albacore AssemblyInfo Task vs. Nant Assembly Info Generator
Here’s one of the reasons I like Rake and my custom Rake tasks that I’m building into Albacore, so much.
To generate some assembly information such as version, company name, copyright, etc., you need to do this with nant:
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 2:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"><</span><span style="color: #800000">project</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">name</span><span style="color: #0000ff">="Assembly Version Info Generator"</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">default</span><span style="color: #0000ff">="buildVersionInfo"</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">basedir</span><span style="color: #0000ff">="."</span><span style="color: #0000ff">></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 3:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"><</span><span style="color: #800000">target</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">name</span><span style="color: #0000ff">="buildVersionInfo"</span><span style="color: #0000ff">></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 4:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"><</span><span style="color: #800000">asminfo</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">output</span><span style="color: #0000ff">=".SomeFolderAssemblyInfo.cs"</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">language</span><span style="color: #0000ff">="CSharp"</span><span style="color: #0000ff">></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 5:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"><</span><span style="color: #800000">imports</span><span style="color: #0000ff">></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 6:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"><</span><span style="color: #800000">import</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">namespace</span><span style="color: #0000ff">="System.Reflection"</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">/></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 7:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"></</span><span style="color: #800000">imports</span><span style="color: #0000ff">></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 8:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"><</span><span style="color: #800000">attributes</span><span style="color: #0000ff">></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 9:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"><</span><span style="color: #800000">attribute</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">type</span><span style="color: #0000ff">="AssemblyCompanyAttribute"</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">value</span><span style="color: #0000ff">="MyCompany, Inc."</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">/></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 10:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"><</span><span style="color: #800000">attribute</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">type</span><span style="color: #0000ff">="AssemblyProductAttribute"</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">value</span><span style="color: #0000ff">="MyProduct"</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">/></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 11:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"><</span><span style="color: #800000">attribute</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">type</span><span style="color: #0000ff">="AssemblyVersionAttribute"</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">value</span><span style="color: #0000ff">="0.0.0.0"</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">/></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 12:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"><</span><span style="color: #800000">attribute</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">type</span><span style="color: #0000ff">="AssemblyCopyrightAttribute"</span> <span style="color: #ff0000">value</span><span style="color: #0000ff">="Copyright (c)2009 MyCompany, Inc. All Rights Reserved."</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">/></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 13:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"></</span><span style="color: #800000">attributes</span><span style="color: #0000ff">></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 14:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"></</span><span style="color: #800000">asminfo</span><span style="color: #0000ff">></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 15:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"></</span><span style="color: #800000">target</span><span style="color: #0000ff">></span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 16:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff"></</span><span style="color: #800000">project</span><span style="color: #0000ff">></span></pre>
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To do the same thing with Albacore, you only need this:
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 1:</span> desc <span style="color: #006080">"Assembly Version Info Generator"</span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 2:</span> Rake::AssemblyInfoTask.<span style="color: #0000ff">new</span>(:assemblyinfo) <span style="color: #0000ff">do</span> |<span style="color: #0000ff">asm</span>|</pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 3:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">asm</span>.output_file = <span style="color: #006080">"./SomeFolder/AssemblyInfo.cs"</span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 4:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">asm</span>.company_name = <span style="color: #006080">"MyCompany, Inc."</span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 5:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">asm</span>.product_name = <span style="color: #006080">"MyProduct"</span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 6:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">asm</span>.version = <span style="color: #006080">"0.0.0.0"</span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 7:</span> <span style="color: #0000ff">asm</span>.copyright = <span style="color: #006080">"Copyright (c)2009 MyCompany, Inc. All Rights Reserved."</span></pre>
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<pre><span style="color: #606060"> 8:</span> end</pre>
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I’ll take the half-the-size, easier-to-read lines of no <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001114.html">angle-bracket-tax</a> where I can write real code, any day.
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