How to determine if NET Core is installed

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I know that for older versions of  NET  you can determine if a given version is installed by following   https   support microsoft com en-us kb 318785     Is there an official method of determining if  NET Core is installed    And I don t mean the SDK  I want to check a server without the SDK  to determine if it has DotNetCore 1 0 0-WindowsHosting exe installed on it   I can see   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft  NET Cross-Platform Runtime Environment  NET Framework 4 6 Win v1-rc1    with Version  of 1 0 11123 0 on my windows 7 machine  but I don t see the same stuff on my Windows 10 machine

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Look in C  Program Files dotnet shared Microsoft NETCore App to see which versions of the runtime have directories there  Source   A lot of the answers here confuse the SDK with the Runtime  which are different

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Alternatively you can just look inside  C  Program Files dotnet sdk

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You can check if dotnet exe is available   where dotnet  You can then check the version   dotnet --version  UPDATE  There is now a better way of doing this  which is well explained in many other answers   dotnet --info

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1  If you are on the Window system   Open the command prompt    dotnet --version    2  Run the below command If you are on Linux system   dotnet --version  dotnet --info

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It s possible that  NET Core is installed but not added to the PATH variable for your operating system or user profile  Running the dotnet commands may not work  As an alternative  you can check that the  NET Core install folders exist   It s installed to a standard folder if you didn t change it during the instillation  dotnet executable C  program files dotnet dotnet exe   NET SDK C  program files dotnet sdk  version     NET Runtime C  program files dotnet shared  runtime-type   version     For more details check How to check that  NET Core is already installed page at  NET documentation

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On windows  You only need to open the command prompt and type   dotnet --version   If the  net core framework installed you will get current installed version  see screenshot

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dotnet --info  OR dotnet --version  write the above command s  on your CMD or Terminal  Then it will show something like bellow  Or

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Using Powershell   Runtimes    dir  Get-Command dotnet  Path Replace  dotnet exe    shared Microsoft NETCore App    Name   SDKs    dir  Get-Command dotnet  Path Replace  dotnet exe    sdk    Name

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After all the other answers  this might prove useful   Open your application in Visual Studio   In Solutions Explorer  right click your project   Click Properties   Click Application   Under  Target Framework  click the dropdown button and there you are  all of the installed frameworks     BTW - you may now choose which framework you want

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Great question  and the answer is not a simple one  There is no  show me all  net core versions  command  but there s hope   EDIT   I m not sure when it was added  but the info command now includes this information in its output  It will print out the installed runtimes and SDKs  as well as some other info   dotnet --info  If you only want to see the SDKs  dotnet --list-sdks  If you only want to see installed runtimes  dotnet --list-runtimes  I m on Windows  but I d guess that would work on Mac or Linux as well with a current version   Also  you can reference the  NET Core Download Archive to help you decipher the SDK versions     OLDER INFORMATION  Everything below this point is old information  which is less relevant  but may still be useful   See installed Runtimes   Open C  Program Files dotnet shared Microsoft NETCore App in Windows Explorer  See installed SDKs   Open C  Program Files dotnet sdk in Windows Explorer   Source for the locations  A developer s blog     In addition  you can see the latest Runtime and SDK versions installed by issuing these commands at the command prompt   dotnet Latest Runtime version is the first thing listed  DISCLAIMER  This no longer works  but may work for older versions   dotnet --version Latest SDK version DISCLAIMER  Apparently the result of this may be affected by any global json config files     On macOS you could check  net core version by using below command   ls  usr local share dotnet shared Microsoft NETCore App    On Ubuntu or Alpine   ls  usr share dotnet shared Microsoft NETCore App    It will list down the folder with installed version name

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You can see which versions of the  NET Core SDK are currently installed with a terminal  Open a terminal and run the following command  dotnet --list-sdks

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The following commands are available with  NET Core SDK 2 1  v2 1 300    To list all installed  NET Core SDKs use  dotnet --list-sdks  To list all installed  NET Core runtimes use dotnet --list-runtimes   tested on Windows as of writing  03 Jun 2018  and again on 23 Aug 2018   Update as of 24 Oct 2018  Better option is probably now dotnet --info in a terminal or PowerShell window as already mentioned in other answers

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I work primarily with Windows development machines and servers    I just wanted to point out  at least for NET Core 2 0 and above  the only thing needed is to execute dotnet --info in a command prompt to get information about the latest version installed  If  NET Core is installed you will get some response   On my development machine  Windows 10  the result is as follows  SDK is 2 1 2 and runtime is 2 0 3    NET Command Line Tools  2 1 2   Product Information   Version             2 1 2  Commit SHA-1 hash   5695315371  Runtime Environment   OS Name      Windows  OS Version   10 0 15063  OS Platform  Windows  RID          win10-x64  Base Path    C  Program Files dotnet sdk 2 1 2   Microsoft  NET Core Shared Framework Host    Version    2 0 3   Build      a9190d4a75f4a982ae4b4fa8d1a24526566c69df   On one of my servers running Windows Server 2016 with Windows Server Hosting pack  no SDK  result is as follows  No SDK  runtime is 2 0 3   Microsoft  NET Core Shared Framework Host  Version    2 0 3 Build      a9190d4a75f4a982ae4b4fa8d1a24526566c69df   Cheers

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Run this command dotnet --list-sdks

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It doesn t need a installation process   I have pinned  VSCore  on my taskbar  win10   so open it  and open a task manager choose  Visual Studio Core  process expand left arrow and over any of them child process right button over it and click in  Open File Location  menu   If you don t remember where is installed search  Code exe  file in all your hard drives

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The correct answer for runtime-only environments without the SDK  such as a server with the Windows Hosting package installed  is to run PowerShell with the following command   dotnet --info   Per the official documentation    The --version option  Prints out the version of the  NET Core SDK in use   and therefore doesn t work if the SDK is not installed  Whereas    The --info option  Prints out detailed information about the CLI tooling and the environment  such as the current operating system  commit SHA for the version  and other information     Here s another official article explaining how  NET Core versioning works

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One of the dummies ways to determine if  NET Core is installed on Windows is    Press Windows   R Type cmd On the command prompt  type dotnet --version     If the  NET Core is installed  we should not get any error in the above steps

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