VS2005: How to automatically generate a build number with date?

Question

I have a .net 2.0 C# application in Visual Studio 2005 for which I'd like to automatically generate the correct version build number which should contain a number that allows me to guess the build date of the application.
I tried to use the 'AssemblyInfo Task' tool from Microsoft but by default this tool doesn't work. For today it would generate a build number '090227' which exceeds the maximum of 65535 and thus geneartes an error.

I could also live with a build number which contains the year and the day in the year, like 09001 for January 1 2009...
Do you know any solution for this problem?
Do I have to update the source code for this 'AssemblyInfo Task' or would this be possible to achieve in VS2008 or so?
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

You'll want to look at msbuildtasks. It is an open source set of msbuild tasks. The module has a task to increment/modify/etc a build number. It's also super easy to use and super easy to extend.