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Timestamping assemblies with Build date and time.

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27 Apr 2012CPOL5 min read 65.9K   521   26  
It surprised me to find that there is no simple way to find out when a .NET assembly was built. You can work it out from the revision number (provided you only use the "standard" numbering scheme) but it's not obvious. This provides a simple way to timestamp individual assemblies at build time.

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