.NET Core is a managed framework that is optimized for building console, cloud, ASP.NET Core, and UWP applications. It provides an implementation of .NET Standard for the Base Class Libraries.

Microsoft’s .NET strategy may have been a little unclear recently, with two distinct strands of development in the familiar .NET Framework and the new, open-source .NET Core. A common set of ...

.NET and .NET Core Before we dive in deeper, let’s first look at the main difference between the full .NET framework (let’s call it .NET for convenience) and .NET Core.

Microsoft shipped the first release candidates for its .NET 8 offerings, including the main framework, the .NET MAUI evolution of Xamarin.Forms and the ASP.NET Core web-dev components, not to mention ...

Microsoft said that going forward, ASP.NET Core will only run on the NET Core 3.0 platform, not the traditional 16-year-old .NET Framework.

Having just shipped .NET Core 3.1, Microsoft is turning its focus to the next stop on its .NET roadmap. Due in November 2020, .NET 5 (no "Core" and no "Framework") will mark the transition from ...

A major part of Microsoft’s “cloud-first” .NET 7 release in November, ASP.NET Core 7 brings powerful new tools to the web development framework to help developers create modern web applications.

The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers.

The change will allow organizations to manage .NET Framework and .NET Core updates in the same way they do other Microsoft-related products via the company’s automated update service.