What's the Difference Between. Net Core, .Net Framework, and Xamarin?
Microsoft Now Has. Net Core, .Net Framework and Xamarin (Mono) in Its Family. It Seems to Be a Lot of Overlap Here. What's the Difference Between These Types...
Microsoft now has .NET Core, .NET Framework and Xamarin (Mono) in its family.
It seems to be a lot of overlap here. What's the difference between these types of .NET Platforms? When should I choose to use .NET Core in my project, instead of .NET Framework or Xamarin?
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You should use .NET Core, instead of .NET Framework or Xamarin, in the following 6 typical scenarios according to the documentation here.
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1. Cross-Platform needs
Clearly, if your goal is to have an application (web/service) that should be able to run across platforms (Windows, Linux and MacOS), the best choice in the .NET ecosystem is to use .NET Core as its runtime (CoreCLR) and libraries are cross-platform. The other choice is to use the Mono Project.
Both choices are open source, but .NET Core is directly and officially supported by Microsoft and will have a heavy investment moving forward.
When using .NET Core across platforms, the best development experience exists on Windows with the Visual Studio IDE which supports many productivity features including project management, debugging, source control, refactoring, rich editing including Intellisense, testing and much more. But rich development is also supported using Visual Studio Code on Mac, Linux and Windows including intellisense and debugging. Even third party editors like Sublime, Emacs, VI and more work well and can get editor intellisense using the open source Omnisharp project.
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