Download .Net Core 2.0

Microsoft has released .Net Core 2.0. This is a modular platform for creating web applications and services that run on Linux, macOS, and Windows. Of course it uses .Net and you can compare it to Node.js or Go. The whole is released under a mix of MIT, Apache 2 and CC BY 4.0 licenses. This edition features a release video on Channel 9 and the next announcement on .Net Blog:

Announcing .NET Core 2.0

.NET Core 2.0 is available today as a final release. You can start developing with it at the command line, in your favorite text editor, in Visual Studio 2017 15.3, Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac. It is ready for production workloads, on your own hardware or your favorite cloud, like Microsoft Azure.

We are also releasing ASP.NET Core 2.0 and Entity Framework Core 2.0. Read the ASP.NET Core 2.0 and the Entity Framework Core 2.0 announcements for details. You can also watch the launch video on Channel 9 to see many of the new features in action.

The .NET Standard 2.0 spec is complete, finalized at the same time as .NET Core 2.0. .NET Standard is a key effort to improve code sharing and to make the APIs available in each .NET implementation more consistent. .NET Standard 2.0 more than doubles that set of APIs that you have available for your projects.

.NET Core 2.0 has been deployed to Azure Web Apps. It is now available in all Azure regions.

.NET Core 2.0 includes major improvements that make .NET Core easier to use and much more capable as a platform. The following improvements are the biggest ones and others are described in the body of this post. Please share feedback and any issues you encounter at dotnet/core #812.

Runtime

• Major performance improvements in the runtime and framework
• Implements .NET Standard 2.0
• 6 new platforms supported, including Debian Stretch, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2, and macOS High Sierra.
• RyuJIT is the x86 JIT in .NET Core 2.0
• Linux and Windows ARM32 builds now available, in preview.

SDK

• dotnet restore is now an implicit command.
• .NET Core and .NET Standard projects can reference .NET Framework NuGet packages and projects.
• The .NET Core SDK can be built from source with the source-build repo.

Visual Studio

• Live Unit Testing supports .NET Core
• Code navigation improvements
• C# Azure Functions support in the box
• CI/CD support for containers

For Visual Studio users: You need to update to the latest versions of Visual Studio to use .NET Core 2.0. You will need to install the .NET Core 2.0 SDK separately for this update.

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We’re very excited on this significant milestone for .NET Core. Not only is the 2.0 release our fastest version of .NET ever, the .NET Standard 2.0 delivers on the promise of .NET everywhere. In conjunction with the Visual Studio family, .NET Core provides the most productive development platform for developers using MacOS or Linux as well as Windows. We encourage you to download the latest .NET Core SDK from and start working with this new version of .NET Core.