Net How do I find the NET version

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How do I find out which version of  NET is installed   I m looking for something as simple as  java -version  that I can type at the command prompt and that tells me the current version s  installed   I better add that Visual Studio may not be installed - this is typically something that I want to know about a client machine

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There is an easier way to get the exact version .NET version installed on your machine from a cmd prompt. Just follow the following instructions;

Open the command prompt (i.e Windows + R ? type "cmd").
Type the following command, all on one line:

reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP"

(This will list all the .NET versions.)

If you want to check the latest .NET 4 version.
Type following instruction, on a single line:

reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\full" /v version

Please find the attached image below to see how it is shown.

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For the version of the framework that is installed  it varies depending on which service packs and hotfixes you have installed  Take a look at this MSDN page for more details  It suggests looking in  systemroot  Microsoft NET Framework to get the version   Environment Version will programmatically give you the version of the CLR   Note that this is the version of the CLR  and not necessarily the same as the latest version of the framework you have installed   NET 3 0 and 3 5 both use v2 of the CLR

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NET Version Detector is a GUI utility that displays which of the six    versions of the framework are installed

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There is an easier way to get the exact version .NET version installed on your machine from a cmd prompt. Just follow the following instructions;

Open the command prompt (i.e Windows + R ? type "cmd").
Type the following command, all on one line:

reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP"

(This will list all the .NET versions.)

If you want to check the latest .NET 4 version.
Type following instruction, on a single line:

reg query "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\full" /v version

Please find the attached image below to see how it is shown.

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MSDN details it here very nicely on how to check it from registry      To find  NET Framework versions by viewing the registry   NET   Framework 1-4          On the Start menu  choose Run    In the Open box  enter regedit exe You must have administrative credentials to run regedit exe    In the Registry Editor  open the following subkey       HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft NET Framework Setup NDP         The installed versions are listed under the NDP subkey  The version   number is stored in the Version entry  For the  NET Framework 4 the   Version entry is under the Client or Full subkey  under NDP   or under   both subkeys       To find  NET Framework versions by viewing the registry   NET   Framework 4 5 and later          On the Start menu  choose Run    In the Open box  enter regedit exe  You must have administrative credentials to run regedit exe    In the Registry Editor  open the following subkey       HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft NET Framework Setup NDP v4 Full         Note that the path to the Full subkey includes the subkey Net   Framework rather than  NET Framework      Check for a DWORD value named Release  The existence of the Release   DWORD indicates that the  NET Framework 4 5 or newer has been   installed on that computer          Note  The last row in the above snapshot which got clipped reads On all other OS versions  461310  I tried my level best to avoid the information getting clipped while taking the screenshot but the table was way too big

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Before going to a command prompt  please follow these steps     Open My Computer   double click  C   drive   double click  Windows    double click  Microsoft NET    double click  Framework    Inside this folder  there will be folder s  like  v1 0 3705  and or  v2 0 50727  and or  v3 5  and or  v4 0 30319    Your latest  NET version would be in the highest v number folder  so if v4 0 30319 is available that would hold your latest  NET framework  However  the v4 0 30319 does not mean that you have the  NET framework version 4 0  The v4 0 30319 is your Visual C  compiler version  therefore  in order to find the  NET framework version do the following   Go to a command prompt and follow this path   C  Windows Microsoft NET Framework v4 0 30319  or whatever the highest v number folder   C  Windows Microsoft NET Framework v4 0 30319   csc exe  Output   Microsoft  R  Visual C  Compiler version 4 0 30319 17929 for Microsoft  R   NET Framework 4 5 Copyright  C  Microsoft Corporation  All rights reserved   Example below

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My god  so much mess to find version of installed  net framework   Windows   Search   Visual Studio Installer   for installed version of VS  tap on More   Modify   Individual Components and see it there

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If you do this fairly frequently  as I tend to do  you can create a shortcut on your desktop as follows    Right click on the desktop and select New   Shortcut  In the location field  paste this string  powershell exe -noexit -command  gci  HKLM  SOFTWARE Microsoft NET Framework Setup NDP  -recurse   gp -name Version Release -EA 0   where      PSChildName -match      S  p L      select PSChildName  Version  Release   this is from Binoj Antony s post   Hit Next  Give the shortcut a name and Finish     NOTE  I am not sure if this works for 4 5  but I can confirm that it does work for 4 6  and versions prior to 4 5

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This answer is applicable to  NET Core only   Typing dotnet --version in your terminal of choice will print out the version of the  NET Core SDK in use   Learn more about the dotnet command here

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clrver is an excellent one  Just execute it in the  NET prompt and it will list all available framework versions

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If you open a command prompt and type the following two commands  all framework versions that are installed on the current machine will be listed  each one is stored in a separate directory within this directory    cd  systemroot  Microsoft NET Framework  dir  A D

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Just type the following in the command line   dir  b  ad  o-n  systemroot  Microsoft NET Framework v      Your dotnet version will be shown as the highest number

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Try  NET Checker by Scott Hanselman

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If you r developing some  Net app  for ex  web app   you can make 1 line of error code  like invoke wrong function name  and reload your page  the  Net version will be show

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Per Microsoft in powershell   Get-ChildItem  hklm SOFTWARE Microsoft NET Framework Setup NDP v4 Full     Get-ItemPropertyValue -Name Release          -ge 394802     See the table at this link to get the DWORD value to search for specific versions   https   docs microsoft com en-us dotnet framework migration-guide how-to-determine-which-versions-are-installed ps a

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To just get the installed version s  at the command line  I recommend using net-version      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    Source code is available on github com  Full disclosure   I created this tool myself out of frustration

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Here is the Power Shell script which I used by taking the reference of   https   stackoverflow com a 3495491 148657   Lookup          378389    version  4 5      378675    version  4 5 1      378758    version  4 5 1      379893    version  4 5 2      393295    version  4 6      393297    version  4 6      394254    version  4 6 1      394271    version  4 6 1      394802    version  4 6 2      394806    version  4 6 2      460798    version  4 7      460805    version  4 7      461308    version  4 7 1      461310    version  4 7 1      461808    version  4 7 2      461814    version  4 7 2      528040    version  4 8      528049    version  4 8       For One True framework  latest  NET 4x   change the Where-Oject match    to PSChildName -eq  Full   Get-ChildItem  HKLM  SOFTWARE Microsoft NET Framework Setup NDP  -Recurse     Get-ItemProperty -name Version  Release -EA 0     Where-Object      PSChildName -match      S  p L        Select-Object   name     NET Framework   expression       PSChildName       name    Product   expression     Lookup    Release      Version  Release   The above script makes use of the registry and gives us the Windows update number along with  Net Framework installed on a machine   Reference  https   docs microsoft com en-us dotnet framework migration-guide how-to-determine-which-versions-are-installed to-find-net-framework-versions-by-querying-the-registry-in-code-net-framework-45-and-later   Here are the results for the same when running that script on two different machines   Where  NET 4 7 2 was already installed       Where  NET 4 7 2 was not installed

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Just type any one of the below commands to give you the latest version in the first line   1  CSC 2  GACUTIL  l   3  CLRVER   You can only run these from the Visual Studio Command prompt if you have Visual Studio installed  or else if you have the  NET framework SDK  then the SDK Command prompt   4  wmic product get description   findstr  C   NET Framework  5  dir  b  ad  o-n  systemroot  Microsoft NET Framework v      The last command  5  will list out all the versions  except 4 5  of  NET installed  latest first  You need to run the 4th command to see if  NET 4 5 is installed   Another three options from the PowerShell command prompt is given below   6     environment   Version 7     PSVersionTable CLRVersion 8    gci  HKLM  SOFTWARE Microsoft NET Framework Setup NDP  -recurse   gp -name Version Release -EA 0        where      PSChildName -match      S  p L      select PSChildName  Version  Release   The last command  8  will give you all versions  including  NET 4 5

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For anyone running Windows 10 1607 and looking for  net 4 7  Disregard all of the above    It s not in the Registry  C  Windows Microsoft NET folder or the Installed Programs list or the WMIC display of that same list   Look for  installed updates  KB3186568

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