Summary

We have covered a brief introduction to the history of .NET Framework and .NET Core and now know the fundamentals of the framework, which are the essential first steps for a solid development foundation and architecture. We also learned the main features and capabilities of .NET 5 by comparing them directly with the capabilities of .NET Framework and .NET Core and we understood the benefits of one over the other. We also learned what the release schedule for .NET looks like from now on and what information is provided to us in the form of industry statistics, all of this designed to enable us to adopt the right technology at the right time and with the planned landscape already inline with our own application architecture and life cycle.

We saw the different types of applications that can be quickly and easily developed with it. We visited the support life cycle for both .NET Framework and .NET Core, which envisage us to architect and design the application software well in advance, with a better and long-term view of our own application product life cycle.

Lastly, we dived into performance improvements and some of the statistics by again doing a comparison with some of the previous versions of .NET. Since .NET 5 is a superset of all of the previous .NET Core versions with added features, it therefore already incorporates all of the previous performance gains applied to the earlier versions, which is why we also overviewed the performance improvements of the previous .NET Core versions and, finally, the specific improvements in relation to .NET 5.

I hope you have enjoyed learning the features of .NET Core and .NET 5 as much as I did and are now looking forward to the next portion of the book, which focuses on design and architecture.