RuntimeEnvironment.GetSystemVersion Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Runtime.InteropServices

Assembly:

System.Runtime.InteropServices.dll

Source:

RuntimeEnvironment.cs

Gets the version number of the common language runtime that's running the current process.

public:
 static System::String ^ GetSystemVersion();

public static string GetSystemVersion ();

static member GetSystemVersion : unit -> string

Public Shared Function GetSystemVersion () As String

Returns

String

A string containing the version number of the common language runtime.

Remarks

On .NET 8 and later versions, this method returns v concatenated with Version, which is the version of the CLR. For example: v8.0.0.

On .NET 7 and earlier versions, this method returns ImageRuntimeVersion, for example, v4.0.30319.