Retrieve VS2010 auto-assigned build numbers

Question

Is there a way to find out what the number is that the build process assigns to the * when I have the assembly version set to something like 1.0.0.*?

I've been looking at the "EnvDTE" namespace in the macros, but haven't been able to find anything useful.

Answer 1

According to MSDN if you have a version number in the form of

major.minor.build.revision

and specify

1 . 0 . * . *

then

major = 1
minor = 0
build = build to be equal to the number of days since January 1, 2000 local time
revision = revision to be equal to the number of seconds since midnight local timeivided by 2