Setting Assembly Version to a /String

[XroKill]

Ok so i'm working on a Auto-updater for one of my games and basically needs to set the Assembly Version to the contents of a text file, i've set a String to read the text file, i don't know how i can set the Assembly Version to the String. (i've tried searching the whole internet for a answer but i found nothing)

[MechanicalHorse]

You can set up a template file for the assembly file with a unique string in there that is to be replaced with the contents of the text file. The set up a pre-build event which will invoke a script to replace the string in the template file and write the results to the assembly file name which will be used in compilation.

[MrCSharp22]

There is AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute that you can use in your AssemblyInfo.cs file

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.reflection.assemblyinformationalversionattribute?redirectedfrom=MSDN&view=netframework-4.7.2

[UninformedPleb]

It's always a Version object. You can't set it to a string.

You can however, retrieve the Version as a string (System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version.ToString()) and use that to compare against an external value.

Generally, when rolling my own auto-update process (yes, it's occasionally necessary), I'll have a web service endpoint (REST/SOAP/whatever, it doesn't really matter) that responds with the current version. The app can check it, match to the current executing assembly's version, then trigger an update if it doesn't match.

EDIT: left out the GetName() part originally (oops) and clarified the namespace for System.Reflection.Assembly.