[wix-users] unable to make AssemblyFileVersion work

[Rob Mensching]

That is not necessarily true: " Product/@Version needs to exist prior to compile time ". Bind variables should flow through correctly (although some things don't always like them, like the v1 SwidTag extension would get confused).

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-----Original Message-----
From: wix-users [mailto:wix-users-bounces at lists.wixtoolset.org] On Behalf Of Phill Hogland
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 2:37 PM
To: WiX Toolset Users Mailing List <wix-users at lists.wixtoolset.org>
Subject: Re: [wix-users] unable to make AssemblyFileVersion work

Another observation is that Product/@Version needs to exist prior to compile time so the compiler can use the version number.  A named bindpath variable as you defined it is only resolved in the binding phase after linking.  I use MSBuild to get/generate the version string and either have MSBuild generate a .wxi file or use a MSBuild property with a -d Comipler Tool Setting

 -dPreprocessorVar="$(MSBuildProperty)"

To define a preprocessor var to be used as $(var. PreprocessorVar)