.NET Core is a cross-platform open-source managed software framework. It is built on top of CoreCLR, a complete cross-platform runtime implementation of CLR.
.NET Core applications can be developed, tested, and deployed on cross platforms such as Windows, Linux flavors, and macOS systems.
.NET Core has the following important components:
- CoreCLR: This is the .NET Core execution engine which performs the essential tasks of GC, compilation to machine code.
- CoreFX: This contains class libraries for collections, filesystem, XML, async, and so on for .NET Core.
- SDK Tools: This is a set of SDK tools for day-to-day development experience. Creating projects, build, run, and tests are common developer needs that are part of these SDK tools.
.NET Core shares a subset of the original .NET Framework, plus it comes with its own set of APIs that is not part of the...
