Setting the version number for .NET Core projects - CSPROJ - not JSON projects

Solution 1:

You can override any property from the command line by passing /p:PropertyName=Value as arguments to dotnet restore, dotnet build and dotnet pack.

Currently, Version composition works as this: If Version is unset, use VersionPrefix (defaults to 1.0.0 if unset) and - if present - append VersionSuffix.

All other version are then defaulted to whatever Version is.

So for example you can set <VersionPrefix>1.2.3</VersionPrefix> in your csproj and then call dotnet pack --version-suffix beta1 to produce a YourApp.1.2.3-beta1.nupkg (if you have project reference that you want the version suffix to be applied to as well, you need to call dotnet restore /p:VersionSuffix=beta1 before that - this is a known bug in the tooling).

Of course, you can use custom variables as well, see this GitHub issue for a few examples.

For a complete reference of supported assembly attributes, i suggest looking at the source code of the build logic here (the values surrounded with $() are the properties used). And since i'm already talking about the source, this is the logic that composes the version and a few other properties.

Solution 2:

dotnet build /p:AssemblyVersion=1.2.3.4

Does that work for you?