But there is an obviously little-known feature in Visual Studio that allready provides this functionality. All you have to do is to edit the AssemblyInfo.cs file in project. Just replace the line
[assembly: AssemblyVersion( "1.0.0.0" )]; with [assembly: AssemblyVersion( "1.0.*" )]; and remove the line [assembly: AssemblyFileVersion( "1.0.0.0" )];. You still have the possibility to manually set the major and minor version numbers (first two numbers). The build and the revision number (the last two) will be incremented automatically after each build. Thanks to Marc Charbonneau for telling the world ;) about this feature in his blog.Edit: It seem like the auto-incrementing the assembly version has an annoying side-effect when applied to an assembly with custom ui controls or WF activities: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/568672. The Visual Studio fails to release the handle to that dll during the build.
