.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.

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.

This promotes code reusability by ensuring that libraries targeting the .NET Standard can be used across various platforms, including .NET Framework, .NET Core, and Xamarin.

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 ...