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Herfried K. Wagner has collected some information on versioning in Visual Studio .NET. Did you know for example that:

When using auto incrementation of numbers, the build number contains the number of days since January, 2000; the revision contains the number of seconds since midnight divided by 2.

Here is a short description of the meaning of the different build numbers:

Parts of the version number:
Main version: 'Product' version
Sub version: For example Service Pack
Build: During development, auto-increment
Revision: Hotfix or Quick Fix Engineering (QFE)

More detailed information on the subject can be found at:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dndotnet/html/managevers.asp
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnbda/html/tdlg_ch5.asp
• http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cptutorials/html/versioning_components.asp