Microsoft began development of the .NET Framework in the late 1990s as Next Generation Windows Services, with version 1.0 officially released in February 2002. It is licensed under Microsoft’s proprietary license.
The most recent version is the 4.6.2 release early August 2016.
It is based on the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) standard also developed by Microsoft which is an ISO standard independent of the programming language used. The CLI allows any program complying with this standard to run within the Common Language Runtime (CLR) which is the execution environment of the framework.
Why the .NET Core?
The use of the .NET platform is growing, but relatively slowly. Microsoft considers today that it is better for a developer or a .NET platform usable on Linux + MySQL + Apache (so not monetisable as is, no license to sell), a developer on a competing technology (Node .js, Java …).
In this sense, the publisher published in April 2014 the first version of its Open Source .NET compiler “Roslyn” under Apache 2.0 license.
What is the .NET Core?
The .NET Core is just an open source implementation of the CLI, which can be compiled using “Roslyn” and intended to run on most recent Linux distributions, and the latest versions of Mac OS and Windows. Version 1.0 was released under MIT license on June 27, 2016.
It allows you to create web applications with ASP.NET Core, command-line applications, function libraries and Universal Applications for the Windows Platform. Windows Form and WPF are not available.
Why use .NET Core finally?
- .NET Core enables developers with .NET technology knowledge to develop cross-platform applications.
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This is the latest version of .NET (which implements all the new features of the framework).
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It is deployed via Nuget and can be updated more frequently.
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He is more efficient
