Countless developers are still asking, "What's the difference between .NET Core, .NET Standard and .NET Framework". Likewise, which one should they choose and why.

Microsoft has just announced .NET Core 2.0, but confusion still exists among developers as to the differences between .NET Core, .NET Standard, Xamarin, and the .NET Framework ...

Microsoft’s .NET strategy may have been a little unclear recently, with two distinct strands of development in the familiar .NET Framework and the new, open-source .NET Core. A common set of ...

However, just as he began the lengthy post, Landwerth ended it with yet another caution: "But remember that the .NET Framework is still the best choice for building desktop applications as well as Web ...

Then, in November 2020, Microsoft deprecated the .NET Framework and released a new version of .NET Core, simply dubbed NET 5, as the main implementation of the platform.