ASP.NET Core

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ASP.NET Core
Original author(s) Microsoft
Developer(s) .NET Foundation and the open source community
Initial releaseJune 7, 2016;8 years ago (2016-06-07)
Stable release
v8.0.0 / 14 November 2023;12 months ago (2023-11-14) [1]
Repository
Written in C#
Operating system Windows, macOS, Linux
Platform Cross-platform
Type Web framework
License MIT License [2]
Website dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet

ASP.NET Core is an open-source modular web-application framework. It is a redesign of ASP.NET that unites the previously separate ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Web API into a single programming model. [3] [4] Despite being a new framework, built on a new web stack, it does have a high degree of concept compatibility with ASP.NET. The ASP.NET Core framework supports side-by-side versioning so that different applications being developed on a single machine can target different versions of ASP.NET Core. This was not possible with previous versions of ASP.NET. ASP.NET Core initially ran on both the Windows-only .NET Framework and the cross-platform .NET. However, support for the .NET Framework was dropped beginning with ASP.Net Core 3.0. [5]

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Blazor is a recent (optional) component to support WebAssembly and since version 5.0, it has dropped support for some old web browsers. While current Microsoft Edge works, the legacy version of it, i.e. "Microsoft Edge Legacy" and Internet Explorer 11 was dropped when you use Blazor. [6]

Release history

Version NumberRelease DateEnd of SupportSupported Visual Studio Version(s)
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.02016-06-272019-06-27 Visual Studio 2015, 2017
Old version, no longer maintained: 1.12016-11-182019-06-27Visual Studio 2015, 2017
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.02017-08-142018-10-01Visual Studio 2017
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.1 long-term support 2018-05-302021-08-21 [7] Visual Studio 2017
Old version, no longer maintained: 2.22018-12-04 [8] 2019-12-23 [9] Visual Studio 2017 15.9 and 2019 16.0 preview 1
Old version, no longer maintained: 3.02019-09-23 [10] 2020-03-03 [9] Visual Studio 2017 and 2019
Old version, no longer maintained: 3.1 long-term support 2019-12-03 [11] 2022-12-03 [9] Visual Studio 2019
Old version, no longer maintained: 5.02020-11-10 [12] 2022-05-08Visual Studio 2019 16.8
Old version, no longer maintained: 6.0 long-term support 2021-11-08 [13] 2024-11-08Visual Studio 2022
Old version, no longer maintained: 7.0 standard-term support [14] 2022-11-08 [15] 2024-05-14Visual Studio 2022
Old version, yet still maintained: 8.0 long-term support [16] 2023-11-14 [17] 2026-11-10Visual Studio 2022
Current stable version:9.0 standard-term support [18] 2024-11-12 [19] 2026-05-12Visual Studio 2022
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Old version, not maintained
Old version, still maintained
Latest version
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Naming

Originally deemed ASP.NET vNext, the framework was going to be called ASP.NET 5 when ready. However, in order to avoid implying it is an update to the existing ASP.NET framework, Microsoft later changed the name to ASP.NET Core at the 1.0 release. [20]

Features

Components

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References

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