Microsoft has just announced .NET Core 2.0, but confusion still exists among developers as to the differences between .NET Core, .NET Standard, Xamarin, and the .NET Framework ...

Featuring .Net Core is a big commitment to taking familiar Windows development tools into the wider Microsoft ecosystem, especially for the next generation of enterprise applications.

.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 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 ...

There are plenty of reasons to move traditional ASP.NET web apps -- part of the old .NET Framework -- to the new cross-platform direction, ASP.NET Core, but beware it will require some 'heavy lifting, ...