Chapter 8. Versioning

 

Philosophy: When you get to the fork in the road, take it.

 
 --Yoggi Berra, New York Yankees Hall of Fame player and coach

There really is only one version number that anyone should care about— the file version of the files you ship to your customers. Still, this topic gets easily confused and convoluted because of the numerous ways that this file version number is generated. Furthermore, with the introduction of the Microsoft .NET Framework and the .NET assembly versions, this topic gets even more confusing as people move from unmanaged (native) to managed code.

This chapter addresses all these topics and addresses helpful ways to keep these numbers straight. The scope of this chapter is narrowed to versioning as it applies ...

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