Template:.NET Framework version
| Version | CLR | Release date |
Shipped With Visual Studio |
Preinstalled with Windows | Embraces | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Client | Server | |||||
| 1.0 | 1.0 | February 13, 2002 | .NET 2002 | — | — | — |
| 1.1 | 1.1 | April 24, 2003 | .NET 2003 | — | 2003 | — |
| 2.0 | 2.0 | November 7, 2005 | 2005 | — | 2003 R2 | — |
| 3.0 | 2.0 | November 6, 2006 | — | Vista | 2008 | 2.0 |
| 3.5 | 2.0 | November 19, 2007 | 2008 | 7 | 2008 R2 | 3.0 |
| 4.0 | 4 | April 12, 2010 | 2010 | — | — | — |
| 4.5 | 4 | August 15, 2012 | 2012 | 8 | 2012 | 4.0 |
| 4.5.1 | 4 | October 17, 2013 | 2013 | 8.1 | 2012 R2 | 4.5 |
| 4.5.2 | 4 | May 5, 2014 | — | — | — | 4.5.1 |
| 4.6 | 4 | July 20, 2015 | 2015 | 10 | 2016 | 4.5.2 |