Could not load type ‘System.Runtime.CompilerServices. ExtensionAttribute’ from assembly mscorlib when using ILMerge

I ran into a pretty horrible problem with ILMerge this week when attempting to build and deploy a windows service I'd been working on. While the merged executable & subsequently created MSI worked fine on my own machine, it gave the following rather nasty problem when run on a colleagues … Continue reading →

Automatically update the AssemblyFileVersion attribute of a .NET Assembly

There is support in .NET for automatically incrementing the AssemblyVersion of a project by using the ".*" notation. e.g. [assembly: AssemblyVersion("0.1.*")] Unfortunately the same functionality isn't available for the AssemblyFileVersion. Often times, I don't want to bump the AssemblyVersion … Continue reading →

Combinatorics in .NET – Part II – Creating a Nuget Package

[important] This is part 2 of a 2 part post on Combinatorics in .Net The solution is publicly available on github; https://github.com/eoincampbell/combinatorics The library can be added to any .NET Soution via Nuget; https://nuget.org/packages/Combinatorics [/important] In the last … Continue reading →

Global Assembly Versioning Strategy & Development Workflows for .NET Assemblies

Over the past few weeks I've been working on a new project in our company which involved building a number of inter-dependent assemblies, "strongly naming" them and installing them into the Global Assembly Cache. Over the course of the project, I was forced to look at a number of issues related to … Continue reading →

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Could not load type ‘System.Runtime.CompilerServices. ExtensionAttribute’ from assembly mscorlib when using ILMerge

Automatically update the AssemblyFileVersion attribute of a .NET Assembly

Combinatorics in .NET – Part II – Creating a Nuget Package

Global Assembly Versioning Strategy & Development Workflows for .NET Assemblies