August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
330 pages
7h 26m
English
Content preview from Mastering ASP.NET Web API
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Introduction to .NET Core
.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 ...