.NETCF: The mini Y2K

re: .NETCF: The mini Y2K

Prabir — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:51:07 GMT

yymmdd is a better solution.

i even tried tat long time back,but we are allowed to have only max of 5 digits as version numbers in .net

Abhinaba Basu [MSFT] — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:54:09 GMT

Prabir a much better solution is to use yymmdd because that way you can sort the folder by name and it'll still sort by the version

Prabir — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 19:28:36 GMT

I had figured out the same problem even before it happened. For my source code i use the following format:

Major.1MinorYY.1MMDD.1HHMM

Its a bit tricky though.

For example v1.10009.11226.11157, would be equivalent to

Major: 1,

Minor: 100,

Year: 09,

Month: 12 (December),

Day: 26th,

Hour: 11 (24hr clock),

Minutes: 57

Best way is to add 1 before starting anynew numbers. One bad thing about this is even the Minor already starts with 1.1 rather than 1.0

the Minor i put it for 3 digits so i can go to 1.3, 1.45 or stuffs like that which would be easier for consumers to understand.