What is “.NET Core”?

Question

Recently in an official .NET Framework Blog it was announced that .NET Core is going open source.

Ironically, the author mentions that what .NET Core is wil

Answer 1

.NET Core is a free and open-source, managed computer software framework for Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. It is an open source, cross platform successor to .NET Framework.

.NET Core applications are supported on Windows, Linux, and macOS. In a nutshell .NET Core is similar to .NET framework, but it is cross-platform, i.e., it allows the .NET applications to run on Windows, Linux and MacOS. .NET framework applications can only run on the Windows system. So the basic difference between .NET framework and .NET core is that .NET Core is cross platform and .NET framework only runs on Windows.

Furthermore, .NET Core has built-in dependency injection by Microsoft and you do not have to use third-party software/DLL files for dependency injection.