Share a GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs among projects in a solution

Share a GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs among projects in a solution

In a project created by Visual Studio, a file called "AssemblyInfo.cs", which describes the assembly generated by the project, will be also automatically created. And it's very common that there is more than one project in a solution. Therefore, there will be many "AssemblyInfo.cs" existing in a solution. However, the contents of these "AssemblyInfo.cs" are more or less the same. It's a type of duplication for sure. We'd better extract all the duplicated code into a global file shared by all the projects.

The image describes the scenario: in a solution, there is a global file called "GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs" which describes assemblies generated by all the projects, and every project holds a reference to the global file.

Steps:

• Create a file called "GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs";
• Add the file to the solution as a solution item;
• Open the global file, Write appropriate codes in it. Sample:
  
   1 using  System;
   2 using  System.Reflection;
   3 using  System.Runtime.InteropServices;
   4
   5 [assembly : ComVisible( false )]
   6 [assembly : CLSCompliant( true )]
   7 [assembly : AssemblyProduct( " . " )]
   8 [assembly : AssemblyCompany( " Company name " )]
   9 [assembly : AssemblyVersion( " 1.0.0.0 " )]
  10 #if  DEBUG
  11 [assembly : AssemblyConfiguration( " Debug " )]
  12 #else
  13 [assembly : AssemblyConfiguration( " Release " )]
  14 #endif
  15 [assembly : AssemblyCopyright( "" )]
  16 [assembly : AssemblyTrademark( "" )]
  17 [assembly : AssemblyCulture( "" )]
• Open a project file(.csproj, etc.) in a text editor, append the following section to the <Files>/<Include> element.
  1 < File
  2    RelPath  = "GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs"
  3   Link  = "..\Common\GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs"
  4   SubType  = "Code"
  5   BuildAction  = "Compile"
  6 />

posted on 2005-04-26 13:24  Lin 阅读( ...) 评论( ...) 编辑 收藏

转载于:https://www.cnblogs.com/losingmyself/archive/2005/04/26/145554.html