Get .NET Framework Version of a DLL

Nitesh Kejriwal

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Arjun Mandavkar1y ago
The version you've got "v4.0.30319" is a CLR version not framework version.
Rod Falanga3y ago
I entered the command you gave in my PowerShell prompt, but I got this error message: "ReflectionOnly loading is not supported on this platform"
- Rod Falanga3y ago
  I've discovered what my issue was. I was using PowerShell 7, which is cross-platform. When I bring up an older version of PowerShell, specific only to Windows, then the command worked fine.
Nitesh Kejriwal11y ago
Thanks Santha!
Santhakumar Munuswamy11y ago
Nice one
Nitesh Kejriwal11y ago
Thanks Shakti Saxena
Shakti Saxena11y ago
nice share :)
Nitesh Kejriwal11y ago
Thanks Nilesh Jadav
Nilesh Jadav11y ago
Nice share sir

Microsoft has been updating .Net Framework versions from a long time and we’ve updated from .Net 1.0 to 4.6. We all love writing small wrappers and convert them into DLLs so that we can reuse the same code in different projects. In this post, we will see how can we get the .Net Framework version from which a specific DLL was created on.

To know this, we will make use of PowerShell. So, start PowerShell and write the following command on the prompt

[Reflection.Assembly]::ReflectionOnlyLoadFrom("C:\SomeTest.dll").ImageRuntimeVersion

The above snippet will display the .Net framework version. You can see it in the display below –

Have fun finding the .Net framework versions your DLL were built on.

Hope you like this blog post.