What is .NET Standard

.Net Standard is a set of specifications / APIs which is to be followed by all .Net implementations like .Net Framework, .Net Core etc. The specifications are set with the intention to bring in uniformity in .Net ecosystem. .Net specification also enables developers to produce portal libraries which are compatible with various .Net implementations which follow the same .Net Standard.

What's new in .Net Core 3.0

The .Net Core preview 1 version was released in Dec’ 2018. One of the major enhancements in this version of .Net Core is the support for Windows & WPF applications. Additionally .Net Core also brings enhancements to the way the applications are packaged and shared. Enhancements for faster JSON processing using Utf8JsonReader. Finally .NET Core 3.0 implements .NET Standard 2.1.

Let us see each of the new features of .Net Core 3.0 in detail

What's new in .Net Core 2.2

Similar to .Net Core 2.1, the .Net Core 2.2 version also includes performance enhancements, additionally it adds enhancements to event handling, runtime services, JIT compiler and application development enhancements.

What's new in .Net Core 2.1

.Net Core 2.1 mainly focus on enhancing performance both build and execution performance, in addition it also added more support to the tools library by adding more commands and global tool commands. Along with .Net Core 2.1, Entity Framework Core 2.1 was also released which added a lot of interesting featured to EF Core. Let us now look into the new features of .Net Core 2.1 in detail.

What’s New in .Net Core 2.0

.Net Core 2.0 is the 2^nd Major version of .Net Core released in August 2017, it was released along with Asp.Net 2.0 and Entity Framework 2.0. .Net Core 2.0 brings some improvements like tooling support, language support, support for .Net Standard 2.0, Side-by-side support for .NET Core SDKs, better integration with Visual Studio etc. In this post we shall see each of these in detail.