What Is .net Standard?

1.	What Is .net Standard?
Answer» .NET Standard is a set of APIs that all .NET PLATFORMS have to implement. This unifies the .NET platforms and prevents future fragmentation. .NET Standard 2.0 is implemented by .NET Framework, .NET CORE, and Xamarin. For .NET Core, this added MANY of the existing APIs that have been requested. .NET Standard 2.0 includes a compatibility shim for .NET Framework binaries, significantly increasing the set of libraries that you can REFERENCE from your .NET Standard libraries. .NET Standard will replace Portable Class Libraries (PCLs) as the tooling story for building multi-platform .NET libraries.

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.NET Standard is a set of APIs that all .NET PLATFORMS have to implement. This unifies the .NET platforms and prevents future fragmentation.
.NET Standard 2.0 is implemented by .NET Framework, .NET CORE, and Xamarin. For .NET Core, this added MANY of the existing APIs that have been requested.
.NET Standard 2.0 includes a compatibility shim for .NET Framework binaries, significantly increasing the set of libraries that you can REFERENCE from your .NET Standard libraries.
.NET Standard will replace Portable Class Libraries (PCLs) as the tooling story for building multi-platform .NET libraries.

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