.NET Core version 1.0 was first released in 2016 and now has support to work in Visual Studio 2015, update 3.3 or later, Visual Studio 2017, and Visual Studio Code only. The shared SDK component can be used to build, run, and publish applications using Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and the command line interface:
Please note that .NET Core 2.0 is scheduled for release in Q3 of 2017 and .NET Core 2.1 is scheduled for release in Q4 of 2017 (after Microsoft releases Windows 10 Fall Creators Update).
.NET Core is a subset of the .NET Framework, and contains its core features in both runtime and libraries. The .NET Framework, which was first released in 2002, is now running version 4.6.2. Until now, it was only targeted for the Windows platform, but, as time has passed, there has been a need to target it on different platforms. Using .NET Core components...
