Summary
The .NET ecosystem is growing at an exponential pace with the new, open source-oriented approach being adopted by Microsoft. Various runtimes and frameworks are now part of community-driven projects that cover bigger portions of the original .NET Framework, which was, ironically, destined to be part of Windows itself.
We have thus far only taken a brief look at the .NET application model and infrastructure. In order to demonstrate the portability of .NET, we have created a simple calculator application, which was then compiled for different runtimes and platforms.
In the following chapter, we will move on to Xamarin, which is the provider of the runtime and the implementation of .NET Standard for mobile platforms. We will implement our first classic Xamarin as well as Xamarin.Forms applications.
