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N. VermeirIntroducing .NET 6https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7319-7_1

1. A Tour of .NET 6

Nico Vermeir1  
(1)
Merchtem, Belgium
 

Welcome to .NET 6! An exciting new release of Microsoft’s popular framework. .NET 6 is the next big step in delivering the “one .NET” vision. The vision that would unify all of .NET to have a single runtime for mobile, Web, IoT, games, and many more targets.

In this first chapter, we will look at the versioning of .NET, together with its support timeframes and release schedule. We will go over the supported operating systems, what it means to have a unified platform, and how to get started with .NET 6 using the command line interface. ...

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