where does AssemblyInfo.cs company information come from?

[Zytan]

The AssemblyInfo.cs file shows company information in two places:

[assembly: AssemblyCompany("COMPANY_NAME")]
[assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright © COMPANY_NAME 2007")]

Where does this come from? How can I change it? Right now
COMPANY_NAME is blank, but I noticed that for VB and C# installs on
machines that already have VS with a company name, both VB and C# went
and took this same company name (I think), and now it exists in
everything those compilers produce. I wonder if this is true, since I
don't recall telling it that information.

Zytan

 

[Zytan]

How can I change it?

I know how I can change it: Just type. I meant to ask: How can I
prevent it from defaulting to this information, so I needn't manually
fix it for every new project?

Zytan

 

[VJ]

Ok are you in 2.0? is so see the project property pages!!.. maybe that will
allow you to do what you want. As far as I know, I never seen the below
situation. Oh well yes for the packaging type projects I have seen them pull
it of, but that was 1.1, and if changed it got saved.

Hope I helped, if not let me know we can dig in more detail..

VJ

The AssemblyInfo.cs file shows company information in two places:

[assembly: AssemblyCompany("COMPANY_NAME")]
[assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright © COMPANY_NAME 2007")]

Where does this come from? How can I change it? Right now
COMPANY_NAME is blank, but I noticed that for VB and C# installs on
machines that already have VS with a company name, both VB and C# went
and took this same company name (I think), and now it exists in
everything those compilers produce. I wonder if this is true, since I
don't recall telling it that information.

Zytan

 

[Zytan]

Ok are you in 2.0?

I must be, I have C# 2005.

is so see the project property pages!!..

You mean Project menu -> Properties... ?

maybe that will
allow you to do what you want.

Yes, it allows me to change those settings within a dialog
(Application -> Assembly Information...), but again, this means I have
to change it for every new project. Where does the information come
from to begin with? How can I change *that* information, so that the
assembly information is already what I want it to be for each new
project?

As far as I know, I never seen the below
situation. Oh well yes for the packaging type projects I have seen them pull
it of, but that was 1.1, and if changed it got saved.

Sorry, I don't follow this. You mean you have seen a newer install of
Visual Studio for a new language grab assembly information (company
name, etc) from an older install?

Hope I helped, if not let me know we can dig in more detail..

Thanks, VJ

Zytan

 

[VJ]

Ok I get now what are asking. You want the blank to be pre-populated with
certain Name, for say Windows Applications that you create with
New->Project. If that is the case, and any templates that are there, they
would be under C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE. I
have never altered them, but I hope it will not be complicated.

VJ

 

[Zytan]

Ok I get now what are asking. You want the blank to be pre-populated with

certain Name, for say Windows Applications that you create with
New->Project.

Yes, I want the default company name to be different. Right now it's
blank on one machine. It's the wrong company name on another (from an
old VS install, I presume).

If that is the case, and any templates that are there, they
would be under C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE. I
have never altered them, but I hope it will not be complicated.

I haven't made any templates. Or do you mean these are already
existing? I can't find anything there, but I'll do a thorough search
later, and see what I find.

Thanks,

Zytan

 

[VJ]

It should be there as Assembly.cs or of that type... if you edit that would
change the template. It should be simple. Let me know what works

VJ

 

[Zytan]

It should be there as Assembly.cs or of that type... if you edit that would

change the template. It should be simple. Let me know what works

The only ones I can find are in zip files within subfolders of
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\VCSExpress\

Zytan

 

[JR]

See:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310441

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...ly+company+name&rnum=2&hl=en#2514228bb898d434

JR

 

[VJ]

I can't believe they still read the registry.. How will this work if run
VS.NET in Vista under restricted user, guess I cannot... interesting...

VJ

 

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

I can't believe they still read the registry.. How will this work if run VS.NET in Vista
under restricted user, guess I cannot... interesting...

It's VS who reads this info not the final application code. VS2005 has been patched (search
Vista update for VS2005) to be able to run under a restricted account and read this info
from the registry.
Willy.

 

[Zytan]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310441

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework/brow...

Thanks, JR, that answers my question of where the source is (and how
to change it). Exactly what I wanted to know!

Zytan

 

[Zytan]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310441

I just wanted to confirm that this registry info is what VS 2005 reads
from on the creating of a new project. So, this is the answer to my
question.

http://groups.google.com/group/micr...read/thread/677c60e3c25348a1/2514228bb898d434

This registry entry doesn't have to be changed to see the results I
wanted (also, the numbers are different on my system, anyway, so I am
not sure what this information is).

Zytan