include build time in exe file

[Sitar]

Hi,

I would like to include the build time in my application.
It's for my ? / About ... menu. It's annoying to change the label.Text
property for every release.

Is it possible to do so?

Thanks,
Sitar.

[Sergey Bogdanov]

You may get it from executing assembly:

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetÂ*ExecutingAssembly( ).GetName().Â*Version

Also make sure that AssemblyInfo.cs contains the following string:

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]
Best regards,
Sergey Bogdanov
http://www.sergeybogdanov.com
Sitar wrote:

Hi,

I would like to include the build time in my application.
It's for my ? / About ... menu. It's annoying to change the label.Text
property for every release.

Is it possible to do so?

Thanks,
Sitar.

[Sergey Bogdanov]

Ouch, I meant you may get an assembly version instead of build time.

Best regards,
Sergey Bogdanov
http://www.sergeybogdanov.com
Sergey Bogdanov wrote:

You may get it from executing assembly:

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetÂ*ExecutingAssembly( ).GetName().Â*Version

Also make sure that AssemblyInfo.cs contains the following string:

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]
Best regards,
Sergey Bogdanov
http://www.sergeybogdanov.com
Sitar wrote:

Hi,

I would like to include the build time in my application.
It's for my ? / About ... menu. It's annoying to change the
label.Text property for every release.

Is it possible to do so?

Thanks,
Sitar.

[Henk Verhoeven]

Hi Sitar

This might help
System.IO.File.GetCreationTime(Assembly.GetExecuti ngAssembly().Location)
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Hi,

I would like to include the build time in my application.
It's for my ? / About ... menu. It's annoying to change the label.Text
property for every release.

Is it possible to do so?

Thanks,
Sitar.

[Sitar]

I used that one already so developpers can trace the version.
But the client specifically wants the build date and having to change the
date manually is not "damn I forgot"-free once the release is shipped already
:)

Thanks,
Sitar
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"Sergey Bogdanov" wrote:

Ouch, I meant you may get an assembly version instead of build time.

Best regards,
Sergey Bogdanov
http://www.sergeybogdanov.com
Sergey Bogdanov wrote:

You may get it from executing assembly:

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetÂ*ExecutingAssembly( ).GetName().Â*Version

Also make sure that AssemblyInfo.cs contains the following string:

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]
Best regards,
Sergey Bogdanov
http://www.sergeybogdanov.com
Sitar wrote:

Hi,

I would like to include the build time in my application.
It's for my ? / About ... menu. It's annoying to change the
label.Text property for every release.

Is it possible to do so?

Thanks,
Sitar.

[Sergey Bogdanov]

Though ... I was close. To get build date (without time) try this:

Version version =
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(). GetName().Version;
DateTime dt = new DateTime(2000, 1, 1);
label.Text = dt.AddDays(version.Build).ToString();
Best regards,
Sergey Bogdanov
http://www.sergeybogdanov.com
Sergey Bogdanov wrote:

Ouch, I meant you may get an assembly version instead of build time.

Best regards,
Sergey Bogdanov
http://www.sergeybogdanov.com
Sergey Bogdanov wrote:

You may get it from executing assembly:

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetÂ*ExecutingAssembly( ).GetName().Â*Version

Also make sure that AssemblyInfo.cs contains the following string:

[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]
Best regards,
Sergey Bogdanov
http://www.sergeybogdanov.com
Sitar wrote:

Hi,

I would like to include the build time in my application.
It's for my ? / About ... menu. It's annoying to change the
label.Text property for every release.

Is it possible to do so?

Thanks,
Sitar.

[Dan Baker]

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Hi,

I would like to include the build time in my application.
It's for my ? / About ... menu. It's annoying to change the label.Text
property for every release.

Is it possible to do so?

There is a "magic" way. The actual date/time information of the last build
can be extracted from the version#. If you set the assemly version to
[assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")], which I think is the default. See the
code snippet below:

private void VersionInfo_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
// user selected "VersionInfo" item
FileVersionInfo myFileVersionInfo =
FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(Application.Executa blePath);
// Print the file name and version number.
string str = "Version " + myFileVersionInfo.Comments;
int nBuild = myFileVersionInfo.FileBuildPart;
int nPrivate = myFileVersionInfo.FilePrivatePart;
DateTime dt = new DateTime(2000,1,1);
dt = dt.AddDays(nBuild);
dt = dt.AddSeconds(nPrivate * 2);
str += " Built " + dt.ToShortDateString() + " @ " +
dt.ToShortTimeString();
this.ctlBuild.Text = str;
}

[Sitar]

It all works. Thanks everyone.

Cheers,
Sitar.

[Sitar]

But why specifically 2001-01-01 ?

Thanks,
Sitar.

[Sitar]

Oops, typo. I meant why 2000-01-01?
And not DateTime.MinValue for instance?

[Peter Foot [MVP]]

That solution won't work on the Compact Framework since it is lacking the
System.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo class (although I wrote a subset of it
for the SDF) - www.opennetcf.org/sdf/

Peter

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Windows Embedded MVP
http://www.inthehand.com | http://blog.opennetcf.org/pfoot/

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Hi,

I would like to include the build time in my application.
It's for my ? / About ... menu. It's annoying to change the label.Text
property for every release.

Is it possible to do so?

There is a "magic" way. The actual date/time information of the last
build can be extracted from the version#. If you set the assemly version
to [assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")], which I think is the default.
See the code snippet below:

private void VersionInfo_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
// user selected "VersionInfo" item
FileVersionInfo myFileVersionInfo =
FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(Application.Executa blePath);
// Print the file name and version number.
string str = "Version " + myFileVersionInfo.Comments;
int nBuild = myFileVersionInfo.FileBuildPart;
int nPrivate = myFileVersionInfo.FilePrivatePart;
DateTime dt = new DateTime(2000,1,1);
dt = dt.AddDays(nBuild);
dt = dt.AddSeconds(nPrivate * 2);
str += " Built " + dt.ToShortDateString() + " @ " +
dt.ToShortTimeString();
this.ctlBuild.Text = str;
}

[Sitar]

I used Sergey's code in one line:
this.lblInfoVersion.Text+="\r\nBuilt "+new DateTime(2000, 1,
1).AddDays(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecuting Assembly().GetName().Version.Build).ToShortDateStr ing();

It works both on Desktop and CF.

Cheers,
Sitar.

[Daniel Moth]

Because the build number is the number of days since January 1st 2000. If
memory serves me right the revision is the number of seconds since midnight
divided by two.

Cheers
Daniel
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Oops, typo. I meant why 2000-01-01?
And not DateTime.MinValue for instance?