.net-core Components and Versioning in .NET Core Identifying Versions

Example

Each .NET Core component (SDK, Host and Shared Framework) is versioned independently.

You can find the version for each of them separately.

• SDK

  You can use the --version option to dotnet to see the SDK version. For example:

  $ ~/dotnet-1.1.1/dotnet --version
  1.0.0-preview2-1-003176
  

  dotnet --info also shows the SDK version.

• Host

  You can run dotnet by itself without any arguments or options to see the version of the host.

  $ ~/dotnet-1.1.1/dotnet
  
  Microsoft .NET Core Shared Framework Host
  
    Version  : 1.1.0
    Build    : 362e48a95c86b40cd1f2ef3d08741f7fed897956
  
  Usage: dotnet [common-options] [[options] path-to-application]
  ...
  

• Shared Framework

  There no command currently to display the avaialble shared frameworks. I use ls /path/to/where/you/installed/dotnet/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App which relies on internal implementation details. For example:

  $ ls ~/dotnet-1.1.1/shared/Microsoft.NETCore.App/
  1.1.1