Get the version number of WinForms app via batch script

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A few days ago I needed to retrieve the version information of an Winforms application and append it to some files. I needed to do this via a batch script. I did it with the following script:

@echo off
setlocal
for /F "delims=" %%i in (
'findstr /C:"<Assembly: AssemblyFileVersion" 
".\My App\My Project\AssemblyInfo.vb"'
) do set MyAppVersion=%%i
set MyAppVersion=%MyAppVersion:~32,-4%
pushd .\MyAppSetup\Release\
move /Y setup.exe setup_v%FCVersion%.exe
move /Y MyAppsetup.msi MyAppsetup_v%FCVersion%.msi
popd
endlocal

Nice, isn’t it?