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Paulo Carvalho de Medeiros Fil
Paulo Carvalho de Medeiros Fil

Reputation: 37

Relationship between Base Class Library and .NET Standard

A rookie question: .Net Standard set of APIs are a "subset" of a .NET's Base Class Library (BCL) implementation, like Mono? That is, a BCL is bigger set than .NET Standard's set of APIs?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1090

Answers (2)

Paulo Carvalho de Medeiros Fil
Paulo Carvalho de Medeiros Fil

Reputation: 37

enter image description here.NET Standard defines uniform set of BCL APIs for all .NET implementations to implement, independent of workload. It is the set of fundamental APIs (generally known as base class library or BCL).

Upvotes: -1

Al Kepp
Al Kepp

Reputation: 5980

Yes, .NET Standard is a subset of .NET Framework's class library. Simply said, sorry for the simplification, .NET Framework was here many years ago, but only for Windows. Now they try to provide .NET for other platforms but not everything is so easy, so they are adding piece by piece. This multiplatform standard is called .NET Standard and is the same everywhere, not just for Windows like the good old .NET Framework.

Also note that .NET Standard 2.0 is much more closer to .NET Framework's library than .NET Standard 1.0 was. (That 1.0 was quite empty, I'd say, but this is just a personal opinion.)

Upvotes: 1

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