Versioning CommonAssemblyInfo.cs and MSBuild

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Published on 2010-05-28T17:02:16Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 17:22 UTC
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So I have a CommonAssemblyInfo.cs linked into all the projects in my solution and is dynamically generated by my rake/albacore scripts which is not checked into source control.

I also have a CommonAssemblyInfo.cs.local for use when there is no ruby available, mainly to be used by devs.

Is it possible to have a msbuild task or something that runs before any of the other project compilation that will copy CommonAssemblyInfo.cs.local to CommonAssemblyInfo.cs before trying to compile my solution? I hate having to have a command you have to just know about and type in order to open and buidl the solution in Visual Studio.

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