Assembly version from command line?

Question

Is there a Microsoft tool to get the assembly version of a DLL file from a command line?

(I know that I can code my own tool.)

Answer 1

I used the selected answer until I got the following error Reference assemblies should not be loaded for execution. They can only be loaded in the Reflection-only loader context. for several assemblies

using

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::ReflectionOnlyLoadFrom("C:\full\path\to\YourDllName.dll").GetName().Version

should work in those cases (probably all cases)

Answer 2

Adding some sugar to the other powershell-ish answers...

To get extended properties like 'FullName'

$dllPath = "C:\full\path\to\YourDllName.dll";
$ass  = [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFrom($dllPath);
$ass.GetName();
$ass

Answer 3

File Version tool will help:

filever /V YourDllName.dll