| title | description | author | ms.date | ms.custom |
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.NET Core Guide |
.NET Core is a modular, high-performance implementation of .NET for creating Windows, Linux, and Mac apps. Learn about .NET Core to get started. |
richlander |
08/01/2018 |
updateeachrelease |
.NET Core is an open-source, general-purpose development platform maintained by Microsoft and the .NET community on GitHub. It's cross-platform (supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux) and can be used to build device, cloud, and IoT applications.
See About .NET Core to learn more about .NET Core, including its characteristics, supported languages and frameworks, and key APIs.
Check out .NET Core Tutorials to learn how to create a simple .NET Core application. It only takes a few minutes to get your first app up and running. If you want to try .NET Core in your browser, look at the Numbers in C# online tutorial.
Download the .NET Core 2.1 SDK to try .NET Core on your Windows, macOS, or Linux machine. Visit microsoft/dotnet if you prefer to use Docker containers.
All .NET Core versions are available at .NET Core Downloads if you're looking for another .NET Core version.
The latest version is .NET Core 2.1. New features include: global tools, high-performance APIs (such as xref:System.Span%601?displayProperty=nameWithType), tiered JIT compilation, build and runtime performance improvements, and support for Alpine and ARM32.
After installing the .NET Core SDK, open a command prompt. Type the following dotnet commands to create and run a C# application.
dotnet new console
dotnet runYou should see the following output:
Hello World!.NET Core is supported by Microsoft, on Windows, macOS and Linux. It's updated for security and quality several times a year, typically monthly.
.NET Core binary distributions are built and tested on Microsoft-maintained servers in Azure and supported just like any Microsoft product.
Red Hat supports .NET Core on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Red Hat builds .NET Core from source and makes it available in the Red Hat Software Collections. Red Hat and Microsoft collaborate to ensure that .NET Core works well on RHEL.