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Sandip Agrawal
Sandip Agrawal

Reputation: 45

It's very confusing.. I was creating .net core web application and can see .NetFramework with .NetCore support

I was creating .net core web application and can see .NetFramework with .NetCore support. But I didn't choose .Net Standard. I don't understand. Please see the image asp.net core web application

Upvotes: 0

Views: 395

Answers (2)

Ken Bonny
Ken Bonny

Reputation: 789

This is Microsoft naming at work here. 😁 There are two dotnet frameworks: the "full" framework, which you selected, and the dotnet core framework.

Before dotnet core and all it's optimized, multiplatform goodness, there was the dotnet framework (refered to as the legacy or full framework). This is the predecessor of dotnet core. This full framework runs only on Windows and the computer it runs on needs the dotnet framework runtime.

Do not worry, the "full" in full framework comes from the transition period between the old dotnet framework and dotnet core. When dotnet core was version 1.0, it did not have all the functionality of today. So some developers called it the full framework (which had everything you needed to run your application) and the newer dotnet core framework which had only the basics.

You can see if you are running the legacy framework if there is the <TargetFramework>netXXX</TargetFramework> present in your solution/project file. The lastest version of the full dotnet framework is 4.8 (net48).

After that it switched to dotnet core 1.0 - 3.1. I'm not entirely sure how that's referenced in the solution/project files.

As a last remark, Microsoft had a great naming idea: the next version of dotnet core is named dotnet 5. They want to get back to the original name with this next version. Do keep in mind that you cannot easily upgrade from dotnet 4.X to dotnet 5. The day to day code looks very much alike, but the underlying engine is completely rewritten.

Upvotes: 1

Brando Zhang
Brando Zhang

Reputation: 27987

As far as I know, before .net core 3.0, asp.net core is support on .net framework. This is the reason why you could create .net core 2.1 on the .net framework.

But after 3.0, asp.net core not support .net framework. You could only create it on .net core framework.

More details, you could refer to this article and this github issue.

Upvotes: 0

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