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.NET Standard

A historical spec that let one library run on both .NET Framework and modern .NET.

.NET Standard is a versioned set of APIs that multiple .NET implementations promised to support; it is no longer evolved, and new libraries target modern .NET directly.

Examples

  • A library with <TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework> can be used from both .NET Framework and modern .NET.

See also

.NET Framework modern .NET
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