Environment.Version Property

.NET Framework 4.5

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Gets a Version¹ object that describes the major, minor, build, and revision numbers of the common language runtime.

Namespace: System²
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)

Syntax

public static Version Version { get; }

Property Value

Type: System.Version¹
An object that displays the version of the common language runtime.

Remarks

For more information about the version of the common language runtime that is installed with each version of the .NET Framework, see .NET Framework Versions and Dependencies³.

Examples

The following example displays the version of the common language runtime. (The version is omitted from the example output for security reasons.)


// Sample for the Environment.Version property
using System;

class Sample
{
    public static void Main()
    {
    Console.WriteLine();
    Console.WriteLine("Version: {0}", Environment.Version.ToString());
    }
}

Version Information

.NET Framework

Supported in: 4.5, 4, 3.5, 3.0, 2.0, 1.1, 1.0

.NET Framework Client Profile

Supported in: 4, 3.5 SP1

Portable Class Library

Supported in: Portable Class Library

Platforms

Windows 8 Consumer Preview, Windows Server 8 Beta, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)

The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements⁴.

Reference

Environment Class⁵

System Namespace²

Links Table

¹http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.version(v=vs.110).aspx

²http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system(v=vs.110).aspx

³http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb822049(v=vs.110).aspx

⁴http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/8z6watww(v=vs.110).aspx

⁵http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.environment(v=vs.110).aspx

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