Inside a .NET Core project, you specify the frameworks that you wish to target. What are these frameworks? Well, .NET Core itself, but the classic .NET Framework as well, Xamarin, Universal Windows Platform (UWP), Portable Class Libraries (PCL), Mono, Windows Phone, and more.
In the early days of .NET Core, you would either target .NET Core itself, or/as well as one of these other frameworks. Now it is advisable to target standards instead. Now we have .NET Standard, and the differences between the two are as follows:
- .NET Standard is a specification (a contract) that covers which APIs a .NET platform has to implement.
- .NET Core is a concrete .NET platform and implements the .NET Standard.
- The latest .NET Standard will always cover the highest .NET full framework released.
David Fowler (https://twitter.com/davidfowl) of Microsoft came up with the following analogy:
interface INetStandard10...
