VSTS Assembly Version in Release

Question

I've recently started using VSTS to build a Xamarin Forms App for iOS. I have it build using a hosted macos agent and then releasing it to a container in our Azure Blob Storage. The one thing I can solve at the moment, is how to include the Assembly Version in the name of the ipa file?

We're using an Enterprise license, so the ipa doesn't end up on any Store. At the moment I have the App_Name.ipa file and all previous versions App_Name.1.0.0.ipa in the container, however it's always App_Name.ipa that is downloaded.

I thought that it might be an option to parse the AssemblyInfor.cs file and extra the version and then set an environment variable - however I don't seem to be able to access the variable in the Release stage.

Ideally I'd like all this to stay is VSTS, however I don't mind trigger a WebJob to perform some extra tasks, however the version number doesn't appear to be accessible from the ipa file.

Can anyone suggest an approach?

Answer 1

You can use some related extension tasks to get Assembly Version from AssemblyInfor.cs files.

Such as you can use Assembly Info Reader task, and then you can get the Assembly Version by the variable $(AssemblyInfo.AssemblyVersion).