Date of last compile available somewhere? 1

[Hokkie]

Hi,

is there any parameter or property that holds the date of the last compile-run? If I were to compile my application on December 8th, it would say something like '12-08-2003', and if I compile a newer version on December 10th it would automatically change to '12-10-2003', so that it's behavior is similar to that of the Auto Increment feature.

Does anybody know if this is supported in VB6?

Tanx!

Hokje

 

[Glasgow]

I'm not aware of, for example, any property of the App object that would do this automatically (though I guess you could do it manually by just storing the date in one of the other properties that you don't use - e.g. legaltrademarks).

Alternatively, you could access the .EXE's date created using, for example, the FileSystemObject. Something like:

Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject&quot
Set FileInfo = fs.GetFile(app.exename)

msgbox FileInfo.DateCreated

 

[Hokkie]

Hi Glasgow,

I tried your code and it works (with an extra DIM statement and an elaboration on the filename:

Dim FileInfo As File
Set fs = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject&quot
Set FileInfo = fs.GetFile(App.Path & "\" & App.EXEName & ".exe&quot

MsgBox FileInfo.DateCreated).

There is just this, though: when I compile over an old version (replacing an old version of app.exe with a new version of app.exe in the same place) I still get the old DateCreated. Hmmm... I could remove the old version and then create the new one. I think that would work convenient enough.

Tanx Glasgow!

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[Glasgow]

Or perhaps just use DateLastModified instead of DateCreated assuming that changes to a sensible date/time when re-compiling and there is no danger of it being altered by the users.

 

[chiph]

I thought to look in the .vbp file, but no luck. It stores the version number, but not the date it was last built.

Chip H.


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[Hokkie]

The DateLastModified works better than DateCreated; it changes with every compile.Although not the answer I had hoped I would get, it works for me. A star for Glasgow as you've come up with two simple ideas that did the trick!

Hokje