Hi Michael,

I'm afraid you will have to do this using Macro, with help of the build
event OnBuildDone
(http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa300715(VS.71).aspx).

Here're some examples on how to do that:

#CodeGuru: An Automatic Build Number Incrementer for Visual Studio .NET
http://www.codeguru.com/csharp/.net/net_vs_addins/article.php/c5961/

#CodeGuru: Automatic Build Number Increasing Macro for VS.NET
http://codeguru.earthweb.com/csharp/.net/net_vs_addins/visualstudioadd-ins/a
rticle.php/c5959/

Please try it and let me know if it works for you.

Sincerely,
Walter Wang (wawang@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
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Michael,

change the AssemblyVersion entry in AssemblyInfo.cs to

   [assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")]

and

   System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().GetName().Version.ToString();

will return a different string (e.g. "1.0.2593.26374") on each build, which
corresponds to the build time.

You have to create an add-in.

Fortunately  Mr. Brandon Sneed already has done this ;-)

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/vsautover.asp

// Anders