Know the Distinction Between .NET Core and .NET Standard
Microsoft is the heart of the IT industry. Everyone knows what Microsoft has given to us. In fact, right now I am typing this article in a Microsoft application. Microsoft is a company which is everywhere in the IT industry. And recently it has launched .NET Core 2.0 and with its launching, the confusion of many has started. Most the people are confused because they are not able to find a good difference between the .NET Core, .NET Standard, Xamarin, and the so-called .NET Framework. Here in this article, we are trying our best to resolve this confusion and let you guys help in understanding these terms easily. So let’s first start with the framework.
.NET framework is basically for developing desktop applications. We all are using many Microsoft desktop applications on our laptops or computers on a daily basis and these are the applications that are developed by it. It is also used in the development of the ASP Dotnet application that runs on the Internet Information Server (IIS). It is the first ever managed framework.
.NET Framework
.NET framework is basically for developing desktop applications. We all are using many Microsoft desktop applications on our laptops or computers on a daily basis and these are the applications that are developed by it. It is also used in the development of the ASP Dotnet application that runs on the Internet Information Server (IIS). It is the first ever managed framework.
Now let’s proceed to Xamarin. As similar to .NET framework, Xamarin is also a managed framework. But the difference between both of them is that they both don’t make the similar type of desktop applications. As we just discussed that, this framework develops desktop applications for Microsoft or for windows, similarly, Xamarin develops desktop applications for iOS and macOS or for Apple applications. It is also used for developing desktop applications for Android.
.NET Core
The .NET core is an open source implementation of the managed framework. Also, it is free as well as has cross-platform feature. Dotnet core basically supports console applications only. But, on a broader perspective, it is considered to be supporting four types of applications and they are console, ASP.NET core, cloud and Universal Windows Platform (UWP). The so-called Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Forms are not included in the .NET core. Now, it is not included as a windows component. .NET framework is considered to be a windows component and hence, the updates are not done in the same manner. In case of this framework, all the updates are done by windows update only. But with the case of .NET core, the updates are done by the package manager. All of the Dotnet core applications are updated individually.
.NET standard
Now it’s time to talk about .NET standard. It specifies the implementation of the BCL. BCL stands for Base Class Libraries. A .NET implementation is required to follow this as a standard and as this is standard, the application developers don’t need to worry about the different versions of BCL for the implementation of each managed framework. For the implementation of any managed framework, it is required to have its own Base Class Library Set. These Base Class Libraries contains classes like – exception handling, input/output, strings, networking, collections and XML. FCL is not a part of the .NET standard and that is because it does not come under BCL. FCL stands for Framework Class Libraries. Framework class library includes WPF, ASP.NET and WCF.
Now here is a similarity between the .NET core and .NET standard that they both don’t include WPF i.e; Windows Presentation Foundation. As the browser is the implementation of the HTML specification, similarly, .NET implementation is the implementation of the its standard. So, basically, all the above-mentioned things like Xamarin, .NET framework, .NET core all implement .NET standard, as it develops BCL for the managed framework. As the software and the hardware will keep on updating or changing as per the demands of the industry, there will be new managed frameworks for the .NET. All the its versions have their own standard versions.
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