Share a GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs among projects in a solution

In a project created by Visual Studio, a file called "AssemblyInfo.cs", which describes the assembly generated by the project, will be also automatically created. And it's very common that there is more than one project in a solution. Therefore, there will be many "AssemblyInfo.cs" existing in a solution. However, the contents of these "AssemblyInfo.cs" are more or less the same. It's a type of duplication for sure. We'd better extract all the duplicated code into a global file shared by all the projects.

The image describes the scenario: in a solution, there is a global file called "GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs" which describes assemblies generated by all the projects, and every project holds a reference to the global file.

Steps:

• Create a file called "GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs";
• Add the file to the solution as a solution item;
• Open the global file, Write appropriate codes in it. Sample:
  
   1using System;
   2using System.Reflection;
   3using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
   4
   5[assembly : ComVisible(false)]
   6[assembly : CLSCompliant(true)]
   7[assembly : AssemblyProduct(".")]
   8[assembly : AssemblyCompany("Company name")]
   9[assembly : AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.0")]
  10#if DEBUG
  11[assembly : AssemblyConfiguration("Debug")]
  12#else
  13[assembly : AssemblyConfiguration("Release")]
  14#endif
  15[assembly : AssemblyCopyright("")]
  16[assembly : AssemblyTrademark("")]
  17[assembly : AssemblyCulture("")]
• Open a project file(.csproj, etc.) in a text editor, append the following section to the <Files>/<Include> element.
  1<File
  2  RelPath = "GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs"
  3  Link = "..\Common\GlobalAssemblyInfo.cs"
  4  SubType = "Code"
  5  BuildAction = "Compile"
  6/>