Build v. Revision in AssemblyVersion

[Mark]

In the AssemblyInfo.cs page of a ASP.NET project, there is a defaulted
property of:

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]

It's my understanding that this indicates a Major Version of 1, a Minor
Version of 0, and a Build and Revision that increment on their own. I could
modify the minor and major number above as it made "logical sense". Three
related questions:

1. Under what circumstances does the Build automatically increment?
2. Why does the revision increment by a 100+ each time I rebuild my
solution? Why not ... by one?
3. Will the code below display the correct related information ... or am I
misinterpreting their meaning by displaying them in this way (for internal
purposes)?

Thanks in advance!
Mark

System.Reflection.Assembly MyAssembly =
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();
System.Version AppVersion = MyAssembly.GetName().Version;
string MyVersion = AppVersion.Major.ToString()
+ "." + AppVersion.Minor.ToString()
+ "." + AppVersion.Build.ToString()
+ "." + AppVersion.Revision.ToString();
Response.Write("Version: " + MyVersion);

 

[Michael Mayer [C# MVP]]

You are correct it is:
major_version.minor_version.build.revision

Here is the definition of how build and revision are calculated (when you
leave * in the AssemblyVersionAttribute)

FROM:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../html/cpgrfAssemblyGenerationUtilityAlexe.asp

If you specify major and minor, you can specify an asterisk (*)for build.
This causes build to be equal to the number of days since January 1, 2000,
local time, and revision to be equal to the number of seconds since
midnight, January 1, 2000, local time, divided by 2.