.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 ...

.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 ...