[Feature Request]: File Version Info customization is limited

[slxdy]

Summary

The File Version Info customization is very limited. For example, while you can set the output File Version, Copyright, Company, you cannot set the File description field, or the Original filename field.

(The fields I'm talking about)

If there is an existing work-around, please let me know because it's a bit urgent for me.

Background and Motivation

I'm currently working on an application that has a custom exe name, but its process name (in task manager) should be something else. The problem is that the task manager takes the File description field as the process name.

As for the Original filename field, my built application has to be renamed after it's built and I don't want to reveal the original name of the application, so I want to replace the field value with something else.

Proposed Feature

Both could have their own csproj properties.
For example:

<FileDescription>Hello World</FileDescription>
<OriginalFilename>CoolApp.exe</OriginalFilename>

Alternative Designs

No response

[KalleOlaviNiemitalo]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/project-sdk/msbuild-props#generateassemblyinfo lists Description and Title properties. IIRC, the C# compiler copies one of these to the File Description field.

As for the Original filename field, my built application has to be renamed after it's built and I don't want to reveal the original name of the application, so I want to replace the field value with something else.

Doesn't the original filename match the assembly name in the metadata anyway? How are you hiding that?

[KalleOlaviNiemitalo]

There's also the option to specify a Win32 resource file to the compiler (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/compiler-options/resources#win32resource) and then none of this Win32 version information is automatically generated.

[rainersigwald]

Leaving this open to collect interest in making some of these controllable via MSBuild, but @KalleOlaviNiemitalo's suggestions are good.

[GenieLabApp]

I have the same problem.
The File Description field is used to display the application name in Task Manager. So it's strange that it can't be set directly in C# like other attributes.