Michael Sync

Did you know about that?? I just read about this from MSDN Flash “MSDN Flash - Spotlight on Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas” and Visual Studio Team System” . I think it’s pretty interesting.. You should not miss that chance.. Good luck to you all!!

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Thanks. Hopefully, you may find it useful..

I was trying to compile a new build of our project today morning. We used to give the build no of our project’s assembly in YYMMDD format. (Build No “70112″ for 12th January,2007). So, I changed the version no of assembly to “2.2.70112.2″ [<major version>.<minor version>.<build number>.<revision>] (More Info) before compiling the project.

When I tried to compile, I got the following error.

Error emitting ‘System.Reflection.AssemblyVersionAttribute’ attribute — ‘The version specified ‘2.2.70112.2′ is invalid’

I was so surprised about it. I thought, we can give any number as we like for the version of our assemblies. Then, I googled it and I came to know that there are a lot of people who are facing the same problem. and I also found the reason why this error occur and how we should fix this problem.

Why this problem?

This article said,

Binary version number for the file. The version consists of two 32-bit integers, defined by four 16-bit integers. For example, “FILEVERSION 3,10,0,61″ is translated into two doublewords: 0×0003000a and 0×0000003d, in that order. Therefore, if version is defined by the DWORD values dw1 and dw2, they need to appear in the FILEVERSION statement as follows: HIWORD(dw1), LOWORD(dw1), HIWORD(dw2), LOWORD(dw2).

Solution

This article “Fixing invalid version number problems with the AssemblyInfoTask” said,

The arrival of 2007 bought a flurry of e-mails to the MSBuild team from people having trouble with the AssemblyInfoTask. The symptom is simple to describe - the builds start to fail with the following error:

Error emitting ‘System.Reflection.AssemblyVersionAttribute’ attribute — ‘The version specified ‘1.0.70102.1′ is invalid

The fix to get builds going again is to change the date format used to generate the build number to something other than the default “yyMMdd”. The date formats are in Microsoft.VersionNumber.target, located in %program files%\MSBuild\Microsoft\AssemblyInfoTask, and there are two of them (one for file version and one for assembly version). You can use any format you want. Within Visual Studio we’re now using 01MMdd.

Note that you may have to go in and hand-edit your assemblyinfo.* files to change their version number back to a default starting point of 1.0.0.0 to get your builds going again.

However, I don’t think it’s a solution since we are not able to use the way that we already used to it.
So, Be careful when you are assigning the version of your build. “[assembly: AssemblyVersion("65534.65534.65534.65534")]” is maximum.

References ~
AssemblyFileVersions: 2.0.0.071005 is bad, but 2.0.0.061005 is good
Why are build numbers limited to 65535?
Fixing invalid version number problems with the AssemblyInfoTask

Note: Thanks to Tyne for forwarding this mail.

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UPDATE : The title of this post has been updated from “Proposed Microsoft Office @ Bangalorel” to “Cheenai Tech Park“. (Thanks to SLN who give me the right name of those buildings.). Actually, I received those photos from one of my friend who is working in India. I like those photos so much so that I posted in my blog with the title as mention in that email that I received. Sorry.

~ Michael Sync

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It’s just 7 steps to register so that it won’t be very difficult for everybody.

What do you think? Cool?

Did u know that?

I came to know a web site called MSFirefox today.

I’m wondering if Microsoft really made that product and this website because there are a lot of things which are very very strange to me.

1. Smiling Bill Gates Photo at the left banner.

2. The one they are giving as download is IE7-WindowsXP-x86-enu.exe

This is the installer for Internet Explorer 7.

3. It’s not FREE

30$?

4. The definition of RSS in Full Features Page or this page.

RSS means … Arh! .. Better go and check it out.

If you wanna read more, you may chk their support page.

5. Strange Photo in 4th Feature “Fast Fun” which is mentioned in Home Page.

That girl from this photo looks very like one of the porn stars from Japan. (but not sure.)

Yeah. Maybe there are some more but let me stop here.

I just assume that this website might be created by someone who hate Microsoft. Let me know if you guys have any idea about this site.

Opps! Almost forget.. Here is a movie from their site..

Microsoft is offering privacy guidelines for Developers. This document is a public version of Microsoft’s interenal private guidelines. It can be downloaded from the link below and there are 49 pages included in that document. (Ya. a lit bit long doc.)  Im still reading this document and I will share some notes from that doc after I have read.

Download Link: Privacy Guidelines for Developing Software Products and Services