Assembly Info Creator

Assembly Info Creator is a small console application used to generate the AssemblyInfo file from one or many xml files. It merge all the xml file to create one output file in any of these language:

C#
VB.NET
Delphi.NET

The goal is to maintains only one xml file with your general information (company name, version, copyright...) and put the specific assembly information (assembly name, description...) in a specific xml file.

Getting started

Download the latest version here (4.0.0.0)
Download the source here (4.0.0.0)

Usage

Command line:

AssemblyInfoCreator.exe [out] <input> <input> ...

Options:

/language:<language>/l:</language> Specified the output language {CS / DELPHI / VB}

/out:<filename>/o:<filename> Specified a output cs file to create with the input xml files (optional, could be specified in the xml file)

/input:<filename>

/i:<filename>

Specified the xml file to create (*.aid)

Code samples

Generic file (base.aid) with the company and the share project informations:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<AssemblyInfoDef>
    <AssemblyCompany>My company</AssemblyCompany>
    <AssemblyConfiguration />
    <AssemblyCopyright />
    <AssemblyDescription />
    <AssemblyCulture />
    <AssemblyDelaySign>false</AssemblyDelaySign>
    <AssemblyKeyFile />
    <AssemblyKeyName />
    <AssemblyProduct>My Product</AssemblyProduct>
    <AssemblyTitle></AssemblyTitle>
    <AssemblyTrademark />
    <AssemblyVersion>2.1.0.5</AssemblyVersion>
    <Index>0</Index>
    <OutputFileName />
</AssemblyInfoDef>

Specific file (client.aid) with the specific informations:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<AssemblyInfoDef >
    <AssemblyCompany />
    <AssemblyConfiguration />
    <AssemblyCopyright />
    <AssemblyDescription />
    <AssemblyCulture />
    <AssemblyDelaySign>false</AssemblyDelaySign>
    <AssemblyKeyFile />
    <AssemblyKeyName />
    <AssemblyProduct />
    <AssemblyTitle>Client.exe</AssemblyTitle>
    <AssemblyTrademark />
    <AssemblyVersion />
    <Index>1</Index>
    <OutputFileName>AssemblyInfo.cs</OutputFileName>
</AssemblyInfoDef>

Specific file (client.aid) with the specific informations:

AssemblyInfoCreator.Console.exe -l:cs -i:"base.aid" -i:"Client\Properties\client.aid"