I recently began migrating my projects from the tried-and-true “manual build and deployment” model to Azure Pipelines. For the most part, this is very straight-forward. I simply point to my csproj or package.json and say “go forth and build”. But I found that there was no native way to set version numbers in my csproj files. I didn’t want to commit versions to my repo (I’ll write a post on this in the near future), so I needed some way of automating this in Azure Pipelines.
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