Microsoft .NET Framework has traveled a lot of distance in its journey since its launch, and today we have .NET Framework and .NET Core. Dotnet Core is Microsoft's open-source version of the .NET framework. Microsoft just announced .NET Core 3.0. .NET Core is one of the most active community-driven open-source projects at the current time, and companies such as Samsung are also participating in the project.
Why Microsoft shifted from.NET Framework to .NET Core?
Now, the analysis is almost over a year since Microsoft announced the open sourcing of .NET Core, a cross-platform for windows. The .NET Framework is not going anywhere, but now it is pretty clear that the company is mainly focusing on .NET Core as the future of its development platform. Microsoft announced the .NET Framework in 2000. C# is the primary .NET language, did see off Java, but proved popular for developing business applications. The company also evolved the language more quickly than Sun was able to do with Java.
ASP.Net development services, co-invented by Scott Guthrie, were a big advance on the old ASP (Active Server Pages) as the main framework for designing web applications. Then why did Microsoft decides to fork the .NET Framework and embrace open source and cross-platform? Here are some reasons.
The primary reason is that the .NET Framework was monolithic and its interdependencies too convoluted for Microsoft to move forward with some projects. So the best available solution was to refactor the .NET Framework into a new, more modular system while maintaining the present version for compatibility. This new version is .NET Core.
What are the best things about .NET Core that make it very special?
If you have done programming in C, Java, the syntax of C# will feel very familiar to you. The syntax is pretty easy to understand and read. This platform has been around a long time now and has steadily changed and improved over the last 15 years. Over the years, we have seen outstanding improvements like MVC, generics, and more.
The versatility is also one of the best things about .NET. It can write desktops apps, web applications, background services, and even mobile apps. The versatility is a big deal because your investment in learning the language can be used for a wide array of things. If you want to mix up what you are doing in your domain, you can also jump from building web apps to mobile apps. And one more thing to remember is the first-class support for Microsoft Azure. It's never been so easy to get up, running, and then deployed to the cloud in just a few clicks.
Future of .NET Core
.NET is a general-purpose programming platform that allows building anything from desktop to web, cloud, mobile, gaming- you can do all this with .NET. Many implementations of .NET have evolved over the years to support the workloads. .NET Standard is just a specification of a common infrastructure and API set that allows you to not only move skill, but you also can write libraries and use those libraries across these workloads.
Windows Desktop
.NET Framework will replace traditional Windows desktop application development. And we are going to see some more workloads that we are going to working on here, mainly Windows desktop, as we are moving forward in the future with .NET Core 3. Here the interesting thing is that if you are a WinForms or WPF developer, you can utilize the .NET Core runtime. .NET framework still will be used in desktop apps. But now, developers will be able to take advantage of .NET Core features, such as improved performance, side-by-side installs, language features, and other innovations coming to the .NET Framework.
By using ASP.NET, you can develop any kind of application, including Desktop Applications and Mobile applications. If your business needs a business application for desktop as well as mobile, you can hire ASP.NET developers. They will build such applications keeping all your business requirements in mind.
.NET Framework
We discussed the future of .NET Core, but what will happen to the traditional Windows-centric .NET Framework? The event presenters said it will still be released with Windows, as it is a component of Windows itself. So it will be supportive for the lifetime of Windows. Microsoft is planning to be making highly compatible targeted improvements to .NET Framework after version 4.
According to the company, the general people should not feel pressured to move off the .NET framework. But they need to know that it is going to be a much more highly targeted suitable fixes kind of going forward, and we recommend that all new development that you start on NET is on NET Core if possible.
Microsoft has very large product lines written on .Net framework is not going anyway. So hope for the best in the future technologies of Microsoft. The company is constantly improving its tools and product services to deliver better and efficient solutions to their customers as well as enterprises so that they can prominently serve their clients.
