Question

I am thinking of the following design:

static class AppVersion
{
     public static string BuildDate 
     {
       get; set;
     }
     public static string Version 
     {
       get; set;
     }
     public static string GetVersion 
     {
       get; set;
     }
}

A few questions on this:

1. How can I get the build date?
2. How can I print a date in a nice format?
3. How can I obtain and print the Visual Studio version in a nice format?
4. It is probably a bad idea to hard code the version into the binary, so I put the version into assembly information. How can I programmatically get it?

Answer 1

I think your first questions are a matter of taste. You could use String.Format to get any style you want. Regarding your last question:

System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Version

returns the version number of the current assembly and:

typeof(SomeTypeInSomeAssembly).Assembly.Version

will return the version number of the assembly containing the specific type.