Microsoft's .NET Core 2.0 is done and available for download as of Aug. 14. Microsoft's primary goal with .NET Core and .NET Standard was to make more of its application programming interfaces ...

Windows desktop support is perhaps the biggest change to .Net Core in this release. It’s important to note that any apps that use Windows desktop components can’t take advantage of .Net Core ...

.NET Standard is an API specification that defines what Base Class Libraries must be implemented. .NET Core is a managed framework optimized for building console, cloud, ASP.NET Core, and UWP ...

In a Visual Studio Live! conference keynote Tuesday a couple of Microsoft program managers discussed .NET today and tomorrow, clearly signaling that .NET Core is the future of the ecosystem and that ...

.NET Core: .NET Core, introduced in 2016, was designed with a focus on cross-platform development. It was lightweight, modular, and optimized for modern application scenarios.

Microsoft cautions that not all projects are good candidates for moving off .NET Framework to .NET Core, which is optimized for building highly scalable Web applications running on Windows, macOS or ...

When .Net Standard 2.1 is released, it’ll give you about 3,000 new APIs, along with support for some of .Net Core’s biggest performance upgrades.