Read Assembly Version in a Post Build Event in Visual Studio 2022 targeting Netstandard2 .0

Question

I have a project in netstandard 2.0 and I use post build events to create a nuget package and to push it automatically to my feed, that was working on .NetFramework. I know that with netstandard and netcore I can create them through the package function automatically but this is not an option because I override the assembly properties to increase automatically my version number.

Anyway I found a solution that in Visual Studio 2019 with .NetFramework 4.8 was working perfectly, nevertheless for Visual Studio 2022 with netStandard this macro does not work.

<Target Name="PostBuildMacros">
  <GetAssemblyIdentity AssemblyFiles="$(TargetPath)">
    <Output TaskParameter="Assemblies" ItemName="Targets" />
  </GetAssemblyIdentity>
  <ItemGroup>
    <VersionNumber Include="@(Targets->'%(Version)')" />
  </ItemGroup>
</Target>

Does anyone have an idea why is not working? is there an alternative solution used for netcore or netstadard?

I appreciate your comments

PS: The version number increment is working, I double checked in the build folders.

Answer 1

After try and error i found that the attribute DependsOnTargets="PostBuildMacros" was missing, the following post build event solved my problem:

<Target Name="PostBuildMacros">
    <GetAssemblyIdentity AssemblyFiles="$(TargetPath)">
        <Output TaskParameter="Assemblies" ItemName="Targets" />
    </GetAssemblyIdentity>
    <ItemGroup>
        <VersionNumber Include="@(Targets->'%(Version)')" />
    </ItemGroup>
</Target>
<Target Name="PostBuild" AfterTargets="PostBuildEvent" DependsOnTargets="PostBuildMacros">
    <Exec Command="$(ExecNuget) pack $(ProjectPath)&#xD;&#xA;$(ExecNuget) push -Source "YourSourceName" -ApiKey "YourKey" $(ProjectDir)$(ProjectName).@(VersionNumber).nupkg" />
</Target>

to avoid compiling errors replace "YourSourceName" and "YourKey" with your repository data