yes.

It works when I do the "Run on external console", but that causes a console 
window to appear that I have to close for the build to continue.

I'll mess with it more later... it does work, just annoying :-)

Thanks again, forgot about doing that, have done this same thing before 
previous projects.

On Jul 23, 2012, at 9:16 PM, Jason Awbrey wrote:

> are you using 
> 
> Working Directory ==> ${ProjectDir}
> 
> and "Run on external console" checked
> 
> (sorry I didn't get more specific about those earlier)
> 
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 10:18 PM, David Junod 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> dumb question perhaps, but how do you get it so that it doesn't give a build 
> error?  I did exactly as you stated and /bin/date returns 1 (causing an 
> error).
> 
> On Jul 23, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Jason Awbrey wrote:
> 
>> I have a custom build command like this
>> 
>> /bin/date > builddate.txt
>> 
>> and then in a tableview cell in my "About" section I have this
>> 
>> cell.DetailTextLabel.Text = System.IO.File.ReadAllText("builddate.txt");
>> 
>> as well as the version data
>> 
>>                     cell.TextLabel.Text = "Version";
>>                     cell.DetailTextLabel.Text = 
>> NSBundle.MainBundle.ObjectForInfoDictionary("CFBundleVersion").ToString();
>> 
>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:55 AM, David Junod 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That would be helpful.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> 
>> On Jul 23, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Jason Awbrey wrote:
>> 
>>> I've done this before with a post-build action.  If you're interested I can 
>>> lookup the code I used to do it
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 11:50 AM, David Junod 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Is there any way with MonoDevelop that I can have a constant for when my 
>>> app was built (that I don't have to maintain manually).
>>> 
>>>         Console.WriteLine("Build: {0} {1}", versionString, BUILD_DATE);
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