C#-Win32: Getting the build date

[Plater]

Is there a nice way of knowing when the project was compiled?
I mean I know I could do a File.GetLastWriteTime() on it or something but that doesn't seem the best way.

Does .NET track it's .exe build time anywhere?

[Plater]

I don't remember asking this, but it actually is something I would like to know.

[kenobewan]

Are you using VS2005? By default, the C# and Web profiles send only "minimal" MSBuild information to the output window. You can configure additional levels of output information by selecting the Tools->Options menu item. Then under Project and Solutions->Build and Run you can select the MSBuild project verbosity dropdown to be: "Quiet", "Minimal", "Normal", "Detailed", and "Diagnostic".

"Normal" gives me build times for projects, and is also explicit about when/where files outputs are updated and to where. This is very useful when you have pre/post actions and are trying to track down when they are firing and what impact they are having.

[Plater]

I more ment in say a Help->About window I could put the date/time that it was compiled?

[Plater]

I still have not found a solution to this.
I have an embeded device that I would like the window's titlebar on my software to show the datetime that I compiled the software. (I could manually set it, but that's a pain and I might forget)