How to get build time in .NET?

Question

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

Answer 1

Here's an interesting article explaining three ways to find the build date of an assembly:

Determining the build date in a difficult way

Answer 2

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

• Use the file system modification date to check when it was created.
• Encode date in assembly version.

Answer 3

http://autobuildversion.codeplex.com/

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