Versions of .Net

[howard]

How to know versions of .Net runtime installed on a PC?

What versions of .Net automatically installed when installing VS2005 or
VS2008?

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

How to know versions of .Net runtime installed on a PC?
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?ID=KB;EN-US;Q318785

What versions of .Net automatically installed when installing VS2005 or
VS2008?

2.0 and 3.5

Arne

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

With VS2005 you get .NET 2.0.
With VS2008 you get .NET 3.5.

Remember that 2.0 and 3.5 frameworks include all previous versions too.

Not really - .NET 2.0 doesn't include .NET 1.1, which has a different
CLR. The framework libraries of .NET 2.0 include all the framework
libraries of 1.1, but that's not quite the same thing.

In particular, it makes sense to have both 1.1 and 2.0 installed, but
when you install .NET 3.5 it supercedes .NET 2.0 and .NET 3.0.

 

[Mark Stevens]

How to know versions of .Net runtime installed on a PC?

There is also an application (with source) on Codeplex:

http://www.codeplex.com/FrameworkDetector

Regards,
Mark
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Mark Stevens (mark at thepcsite fullstop co fullstop uk)

This message is provided "as is".

 

[Pavel Minaev]

And from what I've read, 3.0 is not a complete framework on its own (brings
only libraries and no CLR) - it can be installed only on top of 2.0. Please
correct me if I am wrong here too

You can download and install 3.0 separately, but it includes, and will
quietly install, 2.0 as well.

The same with 3.5 - it is a self-sufficient download, but it will
install 2.0 SP1 and 3.0 SP1 as well.

 

[Todd Carnes]

There is also an application (with source) on Codeplex:

http://www.codeplex.com/FrameworkDetector

Regards,
Mark

Why not just look at the list in the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel?

They're listed there...no special program needed.

Todd