The Assembly Manifest
To start, there’s a manifest that describes the identity of our assembly, its dependencies, and a couple of flags. For our little application, the manifest looks like this (omitting a few irrelevant details):
// Metadata version: v4.0.30319.assembly extern mscorlib{ .publickeytoken = (B7 7A 5C 56 19 34 E0 89 ) .ver 4:0:0:0}.assembly intro{ .hash algorithm 0x00008004 .ver 0:0:0:0}.module intro.exe.imagebase 0x00400000.file alignment 0x00000200.stackreserve 0x00100000.subsystem 0x0003 // WINDOWS_CUI.corflags 0x00000001 // ILONLY
From the first comment line, we can see the metadata (and hence runtime) version for which this assembly was built.
.NET Framework Version History
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