API Reference

Invex.SemanticVersion exposes a single public type; this reference is generated from its XML documentation.

Invex.SemanticVersion

Type	Kind	Description
SemVer	sealed class	An immutable Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 version with parsing, precedence comparison, string and System.Version conversions and System.Text.Json support.

Members at a glance

Member	Description
Major, Minor, Patch	Core version components.
PreRelease, Metadata	Optional pre-release and build-metadata segments (nullable).
Prefix	"MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH" without pre-release/metadata.
IsPreRelease	true when a pre-release identifier is present.
BuildNumberFromPreRelease / BuildNumberFromMetadata	Single numeric value extracted from the respective segment, otherwise 0; throws OverflowException if that value exceeds int.MaxValue.
SemVer.One	Convenience instance for 1.0.0.
Parse / TryParse	String and ReadOnlySpan<char> parsing (ISpanParsable<SemVer>); Parse throws OverflowException when a core component exceeds int.MaxValue, TryParse returns false.
CompareTo, Equals, comparison operators	SemVer-compliant precedence and equality.
IsBetween	Exclusive, order-independent range check.
ToSystemVersion / FromSystemVersion	Conversion to and from System.Version.
ExtractBuildNumber	Static helper to pull a single number from a string.
Implicit conversions	string to SemVer (parses, throws on invalid input) and SemVer to string.

Typical flow

using Invex.SemanticVersion;

if (SemVer.TryParse(input, out var version) && version >= "2.0.0")
    Console.WriteLine($"Supported: {version.Prefix}");

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