I have always found it useful for applications to display their build version, and for libraries to have the build version in their properties. Relying on properties like the date (or file size) is always a bit risky.
.NET Core has embraced Semantic Versioning and at first glance appears to have a new way to specify version numbers.
It doesn't quite work to my full satisfaction, but luckily the older methods still work, so a basic GitVersion task in your build pipeline is pretty much all you need to get things working.
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