Assembly version ".001" becomes ".1"

Question

In WinForms I have an AssemblVersion

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("01.01.01.002")]

However when the splash screen comes up it completely ignores the zeros showing:

1.1.1.2 

as the version which is very inconvenient since later I will actually want to have an assembly version

 [assembly: AssemblyVersion("01.01.01.200")]

Is there a way to avoid this or do I Have to add some number at the beginning of last part of the version like so:

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("01.01.01.102")]

Answer 1

The AssemblyVersion attribute stores it's information as a Version object. The components of the Version struct are integers, and are treated as such. So 1.2.3.4 == 1.02.003.004 but 1.2.3.4 != 1.2.3.400

You can use the AssemblyInformationalVersionAttribute to provide aditional, arbitrarily formatted information about your product, as it's information is stored as a string, rather than a Version. So you can do:

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.1.1.102")]
[assembly: AssemblyInformationalVersion("v.01 alpha")]

Or whatever you like