How to get File Created Date and Modified Date [duplicate]

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• Check last modified date of file in C# 4 answers

I have an .NET EXE file . I want to find the file created date and modified date in C# application. Can do it through reflection or with IO stream?

Answer 1

You could use below code:

DateTime creation = File.GetCreationTime(@"C:\test.txt");
DateTime modification = File.GetLastWriteTime(@"C:\test.txt");

Answer 2

You can do that using FileInfo class:

FileInfo fi = new FileInfo("path");
var created = fi.CreationTime;
var lastmodified = fi.LastWriteTime;

Answer 3

File.GetLastWriteTime to Get last modified

File.CreationTime to get Created time

Answer 4

Use :

FileInfo fInfo = new FileInfo('FilePath');
var fFirstTime = fInfo.CreationTime;
var fLastTime = fInfo.LastWriteTime;

Answer 5

File.GetLastWriteTime Method

Returns the date and time the specified file or directory was last written to.

string path = @"c:\Temp\MyTest.txt";
DateTime dt = File.GetLastWriteTime(path);

For create time File.GetCreationTime Method

DateTime fileCreatedDate = File.GetCreationTime(@"C:\Example\MyTest.txt");
Console.WriteLine("file created: " + fileCreatedDate);

Answer 6

You can use this code to see the last modified date of a file.

DateTime dt = File.GetLastWriteTime(path);

And this code to see the creation time.

DateTime fileCreatedDate = File.GetCreationTime(@"C:\Example\MyTest.txt");