Most recent compilation date and time

[balexei]

Dear code gurus,

I remember that in C++ there were __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros using which I could write the most recent compilation date and time and output it in "About" box.

Is there something like this in C# that I could readily use?

Thank you for your help!

[knewman60]

I just used a function that reads the system clock. Use the command DateTime. Here is what I used to get the year. There are many other parameter you can from this, year, time, day of week + others. I don't know them all but DateTime is something that should work for you

DateTime localNow = DateTime.Now;
textBox2.Text = " " + Convert.ToString(localNow.Year) + "\n";

[boudino]

I don't know, I think it isn't. You can obtain the file from which the assembly was loaded and query its creation time.

      Assembly a = Assembly.GetEntryAssembly();
      FileInfo fi = new FileInfo(a.Location);
      DateTime dt = fi.CreationTime;

Or you can add your own attribute to the assembly which would carry the compilation time (time of instantination the attribute).

[Zaccheus]

Check this out:

http://bytes.com/topic/c-sharp/answe...mpilation-date

You could run a program as a pre-build step which modifies the AssemblyInfo.cs file to contain the current data/time as a string.