title: How to use release date as assembly version for a .net project?
body: <p>I know that the format of the assembly version is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;major version&gt;.&lt;minor version&gt;.&lt;build number&gt;.&lt;revision&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way to make the version number the current date?</p>
  
  <p>For example, if I compile the build today, the version number should look like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>2016.02.11.xxxxx
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Where xxxxx is what you normally get if you set the assembly version to 1.0.0.*.</p>
  
  <p>I googled around but didn't find an answer (not even a question) for this.</p>