It does not appear MinVer sets InformationalVersion, why?

[nietras]

Is there a reason why MinVer does not set InformationalVersion?

[adamralph]

@nietras MinVer sets the Version SDK property, which is the default value used for InformationalVersion.

[nietras]

@adamralph right, probably thrown off by usual usage and that

  <Target Name="AfterMinVer" AfterTargets="MinVer">
    <Message Text="AssemblyVersion: $(AssemblyVersion)" Importance="high"/>
    <Message Text="FileVersion: $(FileVersion)" Importance="high"/>
    <Message Text="InformationalVersion: $(InformationalVersion)" Importance="high"/>
    <Message Text="PackageVersion: $(PackageVersion)" Importance="high"/>
    <Message Text="MinVerVersion: $(MinVerVersion)" Importance="high"/>
    <Message Text="MinVerMajor: $(MinVerMajor)" Importance="high"/>
    <Message Text="MinVerMinor: $(MinVerMinor)" Importance="high"/>
    <Message Text="MinVerPatch: $(MinVerPatch)" Importance="high"/>
    <Message Text="MinVerPreRelease: $(MinVerPreRelease)" Importance="high"/>
    <Message Text="MinVerBuildMetadata: $(MinVerBuildMetadata)" Importance="high"/>
  </Target>

will show InformationalVersion as nothing. If you change this to BeforeTargets="Build" then it will be set. So one just have to be careful when to use this then.

[adamralph]

Note that if you switch MinVerVerbosity to detailed you will see the values of all the variables set by MinVer in the build output. But no, InformationalVersion is not one of them. That property is set by the SDK in a later target.