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.NET Core 3.0 Arriving Prior to .NET 5

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Rob Sanfilippo

Before joining Directions on Microsoft, Rob worked at Microsoft for 14 years where he designed technologies for Microsoft products and... more

.NET Core aims to help developers use .NET technologies (which were originally Windows-only with the .NET Framework) across multiple platforms and cloud services. .NET Core is offered as open source software and targets Linux and macOS in addition to Windows.

.NET Core arrived in 2016 with a subset of the .NET Framework’s APIs primarily for building Web, cloud, and other back-end applications. .NET Core has also delivered other benefits over the .NET Framework, including the following:

  • ASP.NET Core, which has significant performance and development enhancements over ASP.NET
  • Self-contained runtime support, which allows the .NET runtime to be compiled within the application, simplifying deployment and target environment compatibility
  • Side-by-side runtime support, which allows multiple .NET Core versions to coexist in the same target environment
  • Other design and runtime performance improvements.

Subsequent .NET Core versions have delivered larger subsets of the .NET Framework. However, .NET Core 2.2, the current version, which became generally available in Dec. 2018, does not yet offer client user interface APIs.

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