Understanding .NET Framework and Core
Explore the core concepts of .NET Framework, .NET Core, Mono, and Xamarin. Understand their roles in cross-platform development and how Microsoft evolved .NET to support modern mobile and cloud applications.
.NET 7, .NET Core, .NET Framework, and Xamarin are related and overlapping platforms for developers to build applications and services. In this lesson, we will introduce ourselves to these .NET concepts.
Understanding .NET Framework
.NET Framework is a development platform with a Common Language Runtime (CLR), which manages code execution, and a Base Class Library (BCL), which provides a rich library of classes to build applications.
Common language runtime and Base class library
Microsoft originally designed the .NET Framework to have the possibility of being cross-platform, but Microsoft put its ...