Equivalent to AssemblyInfo in dotnet core csproj

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Since dotnet core moved back to the  csproj format  there is a new autogenerated MyProject AssemblyInfo cs which contains  among others   assembly  AssemblyCompany  quot MyProject quot     assembly  AssemblyVersion  quot 1 0 0 0 quot     Note that this is automatically regenerated every build  Previously  the file was found in the  obj  directory  now it appears to be only in memory as the file can t be found on disk and clicking the error message does not open any file  This is the error message   Since they are defined there  I can t define them myself in the classical AssemblyInfo cs  Where how can I define the Company and Version of a project

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I want to extend this topic answers with the following  As someone mentioned  this auto-generated AssemblyInfo can be an obstacle for the external tools  In my case  using FinalBuilder  I had an issue that AssemblyInfo wasn t getting updated by build action  Apparently  FinalBuilder relies on  proj file to find location of the AssemblyInfo  I thought  it was looking anywhere under project folder  No  So  changing this    lt PropertyGroup gt      lt GenerateAssemblyInfo gt false lt  GenerateAssemblyInfo gt   lt  PropertyGroup gt     did only half the job  it allowed custom assembly info if built by VS IDE MS Build  But I needed FinalBuilder do it too without manual manipulations to assembly info file  I needed to satisfy all programs  MSBuild VS and FinalBuilder   I solved this by adding an entry to the existing ItemGroup   lt ItemGroup gt      lt Compile Remove  Common       gt      lt Content Remove  Common       gt      lt EmbeddedResource Remove  Common       gt      lt None Remove  Common       gt      lt  -- new added item -- gt      lt None Include  Properties AssemblyInfo cs    gt   lt  ItemGroup gt    Now  having this item  FinalBuilder finds location of AssemblyInfo and modifies the file  While action None allows MSBuild DevEnv ignore this entry and no longer report an error based on Compile action that usually comes with Assembly Info entry in proj files      C  Program Files dotnet sdk 2 0 2 Sdks Microsoft NET Sdk build Microsoft NET Sdk DefaultItems targets 263 5      error   Duplicate  Compile  items were included  The  NET SDK includes  Compile  items from your project directory by default     You can either remove these items from your project file  or set the  EnableDefaultCompileItems  property to  false  if you want to explicitly include them in your project file     For more information  see https   aka ms sdkimplicititems  The duplicate items were   AssemblyInfo cs

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You can always add your own AssemblyInfo cs  which comes in handy for InternalsVisibleToAttribute  CLSCompliantAttribute and others that are not automatically generated   Adding AssemblyInfo cs to a Project   In Solution Explorer  right click on  lt project name gt   gt  Add  gt  New Folder        Name the folder  Properties         Right click on the  Properties  folder  and click Add  gt  New Item          Select  Class  and name it  AssemblyInfo cs       Suppressing Auto-Generated Attributes  If you want to move your attributes back to AssemblyInfo cs instead of having them auto-generated  you can suppress them in MSBuild as natemcmaster pointed out in his answer

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Adding to NightOwl888 s answer  you can go one step further and add an AssemblyInfo class rather than just a plain class

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As you ve already noticed  you can control most of these settings in  csproj    If you d rather keep these in AssemblyInfo cs  you can turn off auto-generated assembly attributes    lt PropertyGroup gt      lt GenerateAssemblyInfo gt false lt  GenerateAssemblyInfo gt   lt  PropertyGroup gt     If you want to see what s going on under the hood  checkout Microsoft NET GenerateAssemblyInfo targets inside of Microsoft NET Sdk

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Those settings has moved into the  csproj file   By default they don t show up but you can discover them from Visual Studio 2017 in the project properties  Package tab     Once saved those values can be found in MyProject csproj   lt Project Sdk  Microsoft NET Sdk  gt     lt PropertyGroup gt       lt TargetFramework gt net461 lt  TargetFramework gt       lt Version gt 1 2 3 4 lt  Version gt       lt Authors gt Author 1 lt  Authors gt       lt Company gt Company XYZ lt  Company gt       lt Product gt Product 2 lt  Product gt       lt PackageId gt MyApp lt  PackageId gt       lt AssemblyVersion gt 2 0 0 0 lt  AssemblyVersion gt       lt FileVersion gt 3 0 0 0 lt  FileVersion gt       lt NeutralLanguage gt en lt  NeutralLanguage gt       lt Description gt Description here lt  Description gt       lt Copyright gt Copyright lt  Copyright gt       lt PackageLicenseUrl gt License URL lt  PackageLicenseUrl gt       lt PackageProjectUrl gt Project URL lt  PackageProjectUrl gt       lt PackageIconUrl gt Icon URL lt  PackageIconUrl gt       lt RepositoryUrl gt Repo URL lt  RepositoryUrl gt       lt RepositoryType gt Repo type lt  RepositoryType gt       lt PackageTags gt Tags lt  PackageTags gt       lt PackageReleaseNotes gt Release lt  PackageReleaseNotes gt     lt  PropertyGroup gt    In the file explorer properties information tab  FileVersion is shown as  File Version  and Version is shown as  Product version

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I do the following for my  NET Standard 2 0 projects  Create a Directory Build props file   e g  in the root of your repo  and move the properties to be shared from the  csproj file to this file  MSBuild will pick it up automatically and apply them to the autogenerated AssemblyInfo cs  They also get applied to the nuget package when building one with dotnet pack or via the UI in Visual Studio 2017  See https   docs microsoft com en-us visualstudio msbuild customize-your-build Example   lt Project gt       lt PropertyGroup gt           lt Company gt Some company lt  Company gt           lt Copyright gt Copyright    2020 lt  Copyright gt           lt AssemblyVersion gt 1 0 0 1 lt  AssemblyVersion gt           lt FileVersion gt 1 0 0 1 lt  FileVersion gt           lt Version gt 1 0 0 1 lt  Version gt           lt  --     -- gt       lt  PropertyGroup gt   lt  Project gt

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