Visual Studio 2005: Trivial Leftovers in AssemblyInfo.cs

I noted the following the other day when I was doing some C# development...

If one creates a new "Windows Application" and examines AssemblyInfo.cs, it has the following content:

// Version information for an assembly consists of the following four values:
//
// Major Version
// Minor Version
// Build Number
// Revision
//
[assembly: AssemblyVersion( "1.0.0.0" )]
[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion( "1.0.0.0" )]

However, if one creates a new "Class Library" and examines AssemblyInfo.cs, one sees the following:

// Version information for an assembly consists of the following four values:
//
// Major Version
// Minor Version
// Build Number
// Revision
//
// You can specify all the values or you can default the Revision and Build Numbers
// by using the '*' as shown below:
[assembly: AssemblyVersion( "1.0.0.0" )]
[assembly: AssemblyFileVersion( "1.0.0.0" )]

Of course, the '*' notation in the comments for the Class Library (in this case, at least) that incorrectly indicates the '*' is "shown below" is a remnant of Visual Studio .NET 2002 and Visual Studio .NET 2003, where the default for the AssemblyVersion attribute was a value like "1.0.*".

According to the AssemblyVersionAttribute Constructor on MSDN, specifying "1.0.*" sets the "build number" value to be equal to the number of days since January 1, 2000 local time, and "revision" to be equal to the number of seconds since midnight local time, divided by 2. Specifying "1.0.1.*" sets the "revision" to be equal to the number of seconds since midnight local time, divided by 2.

To remove the minor inaccuracy, one could probably change the inaccurate comment by modifying the project template at either %PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplatesCache\CSharp\Windows\1033\ClassLibrary.zip\AssemblyInfo.cs, or AssemblyInfo.cs in %PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\ProjectTemplates\CSharp\Windows\1033\ClassLibrary.zip. Alternatively, one could change the values of AssemblyVersion and AssemblyFileVersion...

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