This post originated from an RSS feed registered with .NET Buzz by Duncan Mackenzie. Original Post: Grant points out a very unknown configuration option for version numbers... Feed Title: Code/Tea/Etc... Feed URL: /msdnerror.htm?aspxerrorpath=/duncanma/rss.aspx Feed Description: Duncan is the Visual Basic Content Strategist at MSDN, the editor of the Visual Basic Developer Center (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic), and the author of the "Coding 4 Fun" column on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/using/columns/code4fun/default.aspx). While typically Visual Basic focused, his blogs sometimes wanders off of the technical path and into various musing of his troubled mind. Latest .NET Buzz Posts Latest .NET Buzz Posts by Duncan Mackenzie Latest Posts From Code/Tea/Etc...

In a very 'Easter-Egg-ish' post, Grant Richins (a developer on the C# Compiler Team), explains a configuration option of 'alink.dll'.

So everybody hopefully knows you can put a star "*" for either of the last 2 version numbers of the AssemblyVersion attribute.  ALink will then translate that into the days and minutes since January 1^st, 2000.  Well, here comes the feature: What if you don't like January 1^st 2000?  Well, you can change it.

Personally, this seems of dubious worth, which might explain the lack of documentation, but if this option is useful to you, check out his post for all the details.