ClickOnce deployed application: how to get build date instead of .exe installed date?

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Hi folks I'm deploying a project using Clickonce and trying to get the date/time info for when I build the program in VS2010, and display this info when a client install the .exe, when I try to use
Dim buildDate As DateTime = New

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FileInfo(Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location).LastWriteTime

this only gets me the time when the .exe is installed on the client's computer, not the build time(which is of course earlier than the installed time). Wondering whether there's a straightforward way to get a build date? Thx.

p.s.OriginalGriff i'm not quite savvy with .net and I'm coding in VB,so i'm just goin to overlook your post in C#

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Do you guys think this
Dim buildDate as DateTime = new DateTime(2000,1,1).AddDays(
System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version.Build )
will give the actual build date instead of Installed date??

Posted 20-Jul-12 9:21am

SandiegoSSD

Updated 20-Jul-12 10:48am

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lewax00 20-Jul-12 17:28pm

Any reason you can't try it out? Build it, change the date on your computer, run it and see which date you get.

SandiegoSSD 20-Jul-12 21:02pm

I changed my local time on computer to tomorrow(7/21) yet it still gives 7/20 when I build it, debug it on MY computer, whose local time is tomorrow. And this is before I even publish it.

lewax00 20-Jul-12 21:04pm

Try a rebuild instead, if no code changed it won't be recompiled with just hitting build. But that sounds like its working to me.

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Dim lFileDateTime = System.IO.File.GetLastWriteTime(Replace(System.IO.Path.GetDirectoryName(System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().CodeBase), "file:\", "") & "\YOUR_APPLICATION_FILENAME.exe")
        Dim lDateBuild As New Date(lFileDateTime.Ticks)

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TRK3 · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-20T12:10:00

Check this out:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2005/04/determining-build-date-the-hard-way.html[^]

It's a good discussion of your problem and it gives a method of reading the timestamp created by the linker.

No idea if it works with the VS2010, but looking at the comments, it worked for somebody as recently as Feb 2010. It's worth a try.

SandiegoSSD · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-23T06:09:00

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Dim v As System.Version = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version


 Dim buildDate As DateTime = New DateTime(2000, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0).AddDays(v.Build). _
           AddSeconds(v.Revision * 2)


lblProgramVersion.Text = "Program built:  " & buildDate.ToLongDateString() & buildDate.ToLongTimeString()

ClickOnce deployed application: how to get build date instead of .exe installed date?

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