diff --git a/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/DotnetRuntime.cs b/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/DotnetRuntime.cs
index acfa246..5791afe 100644
--- a/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/DotnetRuntime.cs
+++ b/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/DotnetRuntime.cs
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.IO;
 using System.Linq;
 using System.Text.Json;
+using System.Text.Json.Serialization;
 
 namespace WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator;
 
@@ -257,6 +258,18 @@ public static class DotnetRuntime
         }
     }
 
+    private static JsonSerializerOptions _options = new() {PropertyNameCaseInsensitive = true, Converters = { new JsonStringEnumConverter<RollForward>() }};
+
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Parse a runtimeconfig.json file.
+    /// </summary>
+    /// <param name="contents">Contents of the runtimeconfig.json file to parse.</param>
+    /// <exception cref="NullReferenceException">I think this can't happen, but the docs suggest that deserialization might return null.</exception>
+    public static RuntimeConfig? DeserializeRuntimeConfig(string contents)
+    {
+        return JsonSerializer.Deserialize<RuntimeConfig>(contents, _options);
+    }
+
     /// <summary>
     ///     Given a .NET executable DLL, identify the most appropriate .NET runtime to run it.
     ///     This is pretty half-baked at the moment; test this yourself to make sure it does what you want it to!
@@ -285,9 +298,8 @@ public static class DotnetRuntime
 
         // It appears to be undocumented why this returns a nullable, and the Rider decompiler doesn't suggest there are
         // any code paths where it can return null?
-        var runtimeConfig =
-            JsonSerializer.Deserialize<RuntimeConfig>(File.ReadAllText(configFilePath)) ??
-            throw new NullReferenceException($"Failed to parse contents of file {configFilePath} as a runtime config");
+        var contents = File.ReadAllText(configFilePath);
+        var runtimeConfig = DeserializeRuntimeConfig(contents) ?? throw new NullReferenceException($"Failed to parse contents of file {configFilePath} as a runtime config");
 
         var availableRuntimes = dotnet == null
             ? DotnetEnvironmentInfo.Get()
diff --git a/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/SurfaceBaseline.txt b/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/SurfaceBaseline.txt
index df58d7e..95aeb77 100644
--- a/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/SurfaceBaseline.txt
+++ b/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/SurfaceBaseline.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator.DotnetEnvironmentSdkInfo.set_Path [method]: string
 WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator.DotnetEnvironmentSdkInfo.set_Version [method]: string -> unit
 WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator.DotnetEnvironmentSdkInfo.Version [property]: string
 WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator.DotnetRuntime inherit obj
+WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator.DotnetRuntime.DeserializeRuntimeConfig [static method]: string -> WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator.RuntimeConfig
 WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator.DotnetRuntime.SelectForDll [static method]: (string, string) -> string System.Collections.Generic.IReadOnlyList
 WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator.RollForward inherit System.Enum
 WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator.RollForward.Disable [static field]: WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator.RollForward = Disable
diff --git a/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/Test/Assembly.fs b/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/Test/Assembly.fs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b0b2dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/Test/Assembly.fs
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+namespace WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator.Test
+
+open System
+open System.IO
+open System.Reflection
+
+[<RequireQualifiedAccess>]
+module Assembly =
+    let getEmbeddedResource (assembly : Assembly) (name : string) : string =
+        let names = assembly.GetManifestResourceNames ()
+
+        let names =
+            names |> Seq.filter (fun s -> s.EndsWith (name, StringComparison.Ordinal))
+
+        use s =
+            names
+            |> Seq.exactlyOne
+            |> assembly.GetManifestResourceStream
+            |> fun s -> new StreamReader (s)
+
+        s.ReadToEnd ()
diff --git a/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/Test/Test.fsproj b/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/Test/Test.fsproj
index fc1cfe2..1f4900c 100644
--- a/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/Test/Test.fsproj
+++ b/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/Test/Test.fsproj
@@ -8,10 +8,12 @@
   </PropertyGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
+    <Compile Include="Assembly.fs" />
     <Compile Include="TestDotnetRuntime.fs" />
     <Compile Include="TestRuntimeConfigParse.fs"/>
     <Compile Include="TestSurface.fs"/>
     <Compile Include="TestDotnetEnvironmentInfo.fs"/>
+    <EmbeddedResource Include="runtimeconfig1.json" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <ItemGroup>
diff --git a/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/Test/TestRuntimeConfigParse.fs b/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/Test/TestRuntimeConfigParse.fs
index 80771cf..88ec9b6 100644
--- a/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/Test/TestRuntimeConfigParse.fs
+++ b/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/Test/TestRuntimeConfigParse.fs
@@ -30,3 +30,20 @@ module TestRuntimeConfigParse =
             )
 
         actual |> shouldEqual expected
+
+    [<Test>]
+    let ``Example 1`` () =
+        let content =
+            Assembly.getEmbeddedResource (Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly ()) "runtimeconfig1.json"
+
+        let expected =
+            RuntimeConfig (
+                RuntimeOptions =
+                    RuntimeOptions (
+                        Tfm = "net8.0",
+                        RollForward = RollForward.Major,
+                        Framework = RuntimeConfigFramework (Name = "Microsoft.NETCore.App", Version = "8.0.0")
+                    )
+            )
+
+        DotnetRuntime.DeserializeRuntimeConfig content |> shouldEqual expected
diff --git a/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/Test/runtimeconfig1.json b/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/Test/runtimeconfig1.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d7aecb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/Test/runtimeconfig1.json
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+{
+  "runtimeOptions": {
+    "tfm": "net8.0",
+    "rollForward": "Major",
+    "framework": {
+      "name": "Microsoft.NETCore.App",
+      "version": "8.0.0"
+    },
+    "configProperties": {
+      "System.Runtime.Serialization.EnableUnsafeBinaryFormatterSerialization": false
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/version.json b/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/version.json
index 0158ffa..c7c4e81 100644
--- a/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/version.json
+++ b/WoofWare.DotnetRuntimeLocator/version.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "version": "0.3",
+  "version": "0.4",
   "publicReleaseRefSpec": [
     "^refs/heads/main$"
   ],
@@ -9,4 +9,4 @@
     ":/Directory.Build.props",
     ":/README.md"
   ]
-}
+}
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