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 cautions that not all projects are good candidates for moving off .NET Framework to .NET Core, which is optimized for building highly scalable Web applications running on Windows, macOS or ...

Building on the rapid growth in the refactored and reinvigorated .NET Core, Microsoft aims to have many existing .NET Framework 4.8 APIs and features run on .NET 5, along with new APIs and services.

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.