Access .NET .csproj version while running pipeline

João Antão

Hi,

Would it be possible to access the version number from the .csproj (.NET) project during a pipeline step? 

The structure of a .csproj file is similar to this: 

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

<PropertyGroup>
 <TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.1</TargetFramework>
 <Version>1.1.0</Version>
 <Description>Test</Description>
 </PropertyGroup>

</Project>

I would like to extract the version to later ship it on a package step and publish it automatically to nuget. 

 

Thanks in advance. 

Steven Vaccarella

So if I understand you correctly you just want to pull the version number out of an xml file and pass it on to the next step? If you know that the version attribute will always be on a separate line as shown above and if there will be no other lines that look like that then you could use some basic pattern matching. Something like this:

pipelines:
  default:
    - step:
        script:
          - grep '<Version>' < .csproj | sed 's/.*<Version>\(.*\)<\/Version>/\1/' > version.txt
        artifacts:
          - version.txt
    - step:
        script:
          - cat version.txt