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As of now, many of you are aware about the information stored in project.json file in ASP.NET Core 1.0. My this blog post will tell, how to retrieve the version number from project.json file. Below is the screenshot of my json file: And below is the code to get the version number: public void Configure( IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory) { // Reading project.json file var projConfig = new ConfigurationBuilder ().AddJsonFile( "project.json" ).Build(); //app version number var appVersion = projConfig[ "version" ]; // SQL Server version number var sqlServerVersion = projConfig[ "dependencies:EntityFramework.MicrosoftSqlServer" ]; } Hope this post was helpful.

If you want to figure out the current version of WPF installed on your machine, then one has to navigate to registry for below path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v3.0\Setup\Windows Presentation Foundation Version value on above path will give your the required information.