How to get the build time in .NET?

Question

Is it possible for a .NET assembly to know when it was built?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/324245/asp-net-show-application-build-date-info-at-the-bottom-of-the-screen — naveen, Feb 14 '11 at 15:50

Dalmas · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-22T21:04:11.847

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Here is an interesting article, which explains three ways to find the build date of an assembly :

edited Jul 22 '12 at 21:04

answered Feb 14 '11 at 15:49

Dalmas

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 14 '11 at 15:48

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Assembly metadata does not contain a build date. You could do a couple of things though:

answered Feb 14 '11 at 15:48

Andrew Hare

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 14 '11 at 15:51

It has an option to add a number of date combinations to any of the Assembly(File) Version. And it will update this on every build.

I usually have something like year + day of year as my revision numbers.

Like 1 Jan 2011 would be : 11001

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