FormatVersion Class
This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code.
Appends the revision number to the version number.
MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.
Assembly: Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Core (in Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Core.dll)
Microsoft.Build.Utilities::Task
Microsoft.Build.Tasks::TaskExtension
Microsoft.Build.Tasks::FormatVersion
| Name | Description | |
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![]() | FormatVersion() | This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Initializes a new instance of the FormatVersion class. MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0. |
| Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|
![]() | BuildEngine | Gets or sets the instance of the IBuildEngine object used by the task. MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.(Inherited from Task.) |
![]() | BuildEngine2 | Gets the instance of the IBuildEngine2 object used by the task. MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.(Inherited from Task.) |
![]() | BuildEngine3 | Gets the instance of the IBuildEngine3 object used by the task. MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.(Inherited from Task.) |
![]() | BuildEngine4 | Gets the instance of the IBuildEngine4 object used by the task. MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.(Inherited from Task.) |
![]() | FormatType | This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets or sets the format type. MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0. |
![]() | HostObject | Gets or sets the host object associated with the task. MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.(Inherited from Task.) |
![]() | Log | This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets an instance of a TaskLoggingHelperExtension containing task logging methods. MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.(Inherited from TaskExtension.) |
![]() | OutputVersion | This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets or sets the output version that includes the revision number. MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0. |
![]() | Revision | This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets or sets the revision to append to the version. MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0. |
![]() | Version | This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Gets or sets the version number string to format. MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0. |
| Name | Description | |
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![]() | Equals(Object^) | (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | Execute() | This API supports the product infrastructure and is not intended to be used directly from your code. Executes the FormatVersion task. MSBuild is now included in Visual Studio instead of the .NET Framework. You can use MSBuild 12.0 side-by-side with versions previously deployed with the .NET Framework.For more information, see What's New in MSBuild 12.0.(Overrides Task::Execute().) |
![]() | GetHashCode() | (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | GetType() | (Inherited from Object.) |
![]() | ToString() | (Inherited from Object.) |
Any public static (Shared in Visual Basic) members of this type are thread safe. Any instance members are not guaranteed to be thread safe.

