Browsing assemblies with Visual Studio 2017

Using Visual Studio 2017, navigate to View | Object Browser, or press Ctrl + W, J, and you will see that your solution has dependencies on assemblies such as System.Console, used in all the coding exercises so far, as shown in the following screenshot:

Object Browser can be used to learn about the assemblies and namespaces that .NET Core uses to logically and physically group types together.

For types that are only used in some scenarios, for example, the Console type is only used in console applications, not in web applications or mobile apps, there is an assembly for just that one type and its ...

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