What is .NET Standard?

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Explains that .NET Standard is a single contract that captures the largest common API surface across runtimes, replacing PCL profiles; versioning matters (netstandard1.x gives widest compatibility, netstandard2.0 jumps from ~13.5k APIs to ~33k, ~140% increase). Shows the practical magic: type forwarding lets a .NET Core 2 app use an old .NET Framework library (example: PowerCollections from 2005) by redirecting types at runtime, but this requires .NET Core 2, thorough testing, and can still yield PlatformNotSupported exceptions. Tools: API diff pages and the .NET Portability Analyzer.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 5:22PORTABLE CLASS LIBRARIES
3. 29:56REFERENCE ANYTHING!
4. 44:12PORT MY PACKAGE
5. 58:07HOW DID I DO?

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