.NET Framework

The .NET Framework is the most well known and mature of the three options. The .NET Framework is a mature and fully featured framework that ships with Windows. The .NET Framework ecosystem is well established and has been around for well over a decade. The .NET Framework is production ready today and provides the highest level of compatibility for your existing applications and libraries.

The .NET Framework runs on Windows only. It is also a monolithic component with a large API surface area and a slower release cycle. While the code for the .NET Framework is available for reference it is not an active open source project.

.NET Core

.NET Core is a modular runtime and library implementation that includes a subset of the .NET Framework. .NET Core is supported on Windows, Mac and Linux. .NET Core consists of a set of libraries, called “CoreFX”, and a small, optimized runtime, called “CoreCLR”. .NET Core is open-source, so you can follow progress on the project and contribute to it on GitHub.

The CoreCLR runtime (Microsoft.CoreCLR) and CoreFX libraries are distributed via NuGet. Because .NET Core has been built as a componentized set of libraries you can limit the API surface area your application uses to just the pieces you need. You can also run .NET Core based applications on much more constrained environments (ex. ASP.NET Core on Nano Server).

The API factoring in .NET Core was updated to enable better componentization. This means that existing libraries built for the .NET Framework generally need to be recompiled to run on .NET Core. The .NET Core ecosystem is relatively new, but it is rapidly growing with the support of popular .NET packages like JSON.NET, AutoFac, xUnit.net and many others.

Developing on .NET Core allows you to target a single consistent platform that can run on multiple platforms.

Languages (available for .NET Framework and .NET Core)

The next releases for the .NET languages will apply to all .NET platforms. There’s a lot of information out there about the features included in these releases but here’s a short summary:

• Bring functional programming concepts to .NET languages
  • Tuples
  • Pattern matching
• Performance and Code Quality
  • Value Tasks
  • Ref returns
  • Throw expressions
  • Binary literals
  • Digit separators
• Developer Productivity
  • Out vars
  • Local functions

These features will be all available in C# 7. VB 15 will also implement all the features that impact language interop (tuples, ref returns, etc) but some features will be available in the next language update (e.g. pattern matching) or are not in the roadmap (e.g. local functions).

In addition to C# and VB we’ll also release a new version for the F# language. F# 4.1 will include things like:

• Full .NET Core support
• Better IDE experience with workspace support on the F# language service
• New language features such as struct tuples which interoperate with ValueTuple, more support for annotating types as structs, support for the fixed keyword and more.

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