ASP.NET Core

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 inC#
Operating systemWindows, macOS, Linux
PlatformCross-platform
TypeWeb framework
LicenseMIT License[2]
Websitedotnet.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]

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]

  1. ^ "Announcing ASP.NET Core in .NET 8". .NET Blog. 2023-11-14. Retrieved 2023-11-19.
  2. ^ "ASP.NET Core license". GitHub. Retrieved 2021-09-29.
  3. ^ "Choose between ASP.NET 4.x and ASP.NET Core". docs.microsoft.com.
  4. ^ singh Satinder. "Introduction to ASP.NET Core". microsoft.com. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
  5. ^ "Introduction to ASP.NET Core". docs.microsoft.com.
  6. ^ "[Discussion] Updated Blazor browser support for .NET 5 · Issue #26475 · dotnet/aspnetcore". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-11-11.