Finding version of .net installed

Version seems to give you the application version. Say, from LinqPad I want to find. NET version it is running against and it gives me not the. Naomi: no, it gives the version of the CLR. From the docs: "Gets a Version object that describes the major, minor, build, and revision numbers of the common language runtime.

What I am supposed to see in this object? I am seeing 2. I loaded the latest version of LinqPad and now I am getting 4. The previous version was targeting. So, I am still a bit confused - does it indeed show CLR version?

Naomi: Yes, it does show the CLR version. Net 2. Net 3. Net 4. Dov Benyomin Sohacheski 5, 7 7 gold badges 34 34 silver badges 57 57 bronze badges. Steve Junior Steve Junior 2 2 silver badges 5 5 bronze badges.

It displays all versions up until 4. MSDN details it here very nicely on how to check it from registry: To find. NET Framework versions by viewing the registry.

In the Open box, enter regedit. You must have administrative credentials to run regedit. To find. Michael Arnell Michael Arnell 1 1 gold badge 8 8 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges.

Not recommended because this is possibly misleading. If you upgraded 4. See Sunimal Kaluarachchi's example. In the location field, paste this string: powershell. Hit Next. Give the shortcut a name and Finish. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Versions 1. My god, so much mess to find version of installed. It's just a single binary. It uses the guidelines provided my Microsoft to get version information.

It doesn't require the SDK to be installed. Or the Visual Studio command prompt. It doesn't require you to use regedit and hunt down registry keys yourself. You can even pipe the output in a command line tool if you need to.

Dan Esparza Dan Esparza If that incomplete set of version information is good enough for you, more power to you. Shiva You indicate that you think that command shows everything, and I respectfully disagree with you. Please look at the link with the guidelines provided by Microsoft. For example: Your query doesn't show I have. Also, it indicates I have 'CDF' installed, which isn't a. NET framework version.

Raghav Raghav 7, 5 5 gold badges 71 71 silver badges 93 93 bronze badges. I 1, 1 1 gold badge 14 14 silver badges 18 18 bronze badges. A great suggestion. The OP specifically indicated a command line tool, though. James Poulose James Poulose 2, 1 1 gold badge 30 30 silver badges 29 29 bronze badges. This tool requires not only the. NET framework to be installed, but Visual Studio. The OP indicated that Visual Studio might not be installed.

And it does not show all or even most versions. For my Win7 PC is shows only V2. Zeek clrver shows installed. Eric Aya Trakehner1 Trakehner1 21 1 1 bronze badge. Probably not the cleanest way, but indeed an option I totally forgot about. Look for "installed updates" KB It's in the registry, as documented by Microsoft.

It is not. The "Full" key does not even exist. You can list older. NET versions running on your computer by running a simple command shown below.

Running the above command will print all older. NET versions installed on the computer. Note that this does not show the latest version. So this command can be helpful to find older versions, we should check Appwiz. Can we remove the older versions keeping the latest one?

Would there be any applications that can run only with the older. NET versions? I currently have 4. What apps would fail to run if.

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