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How to Manually Change Assembly Version Number of an Existing EXE Program?

I would like to know if there is a way for me to manually change the Assembly Version Number of an EXE program. I want Visual Studio to automatically change the Assembly Version Number for me whenever I rebuild the EXE program. But in some occasions, I need the EXE program to have a specific version number. This means I want to be able to change the Assembly Version Number of the EXE file. But the Assembly Version number field of the file properties is read-only. Is there a way to change it?

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Daniel Van Der Werken

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Todd Gerbert

Or right-click your project, choose properties, then click the "Assembly Information" button on the "Application" tab. Specifying version numbers here is identical to doing it manually as Dan7el already suggested; if you use a "*" in one of the two right-most positions of the Assembly Version then Visual Studio will automatically increment it for you (if you use a "*" in the second-to-last position, then last one must be empty).
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homerslmpson

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Thanks for the confirmation.

Actually I already know that I can assign a version number to a _new_ EXE file by changing the Assembly Version property in the AssemblyInfo.cs program file. I was just hoping that I didn't need to mess with the AssemblyInfo.cs file and could go directly to change the version number in an _existing_ EXE file. If this cannot be done, I will accept this and move on instead of procastinating. Thanks.