What is .NET Standard?

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Defines an API contract called .NET Standard with concrete versions: .NET Standard 1.x had ~13.5k APIs and .NET Standard 2 expands to ~33,000 APIs (about a 200% jump), so more libraries simply work. Uses type forwarding and a reference anything shim so many existing NuGet packages (about 70% of Framework/PCL packages) run on .NET Core 2 without rewrites. Demonstrations compile and run a .NET Core app calling a .NET Framework library directly, showing the approach actually works.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:47Application Monitoring
3. 3:15Dotnet Core
4. 3:45Xamarin
5. 4:53Portable Class Libraries
6. 5:05The Portable Class Library Fiasco
7. 7:17Windows Phone 8
8. 9:56Five-Set Venn Diagram
9. 15:00Versioning
10. 16:53The Package and the Application
11. 18:00Null Throwing
12. 19:16Dotnet Standard Dll
13. 19:32Type Forwarding
14. 21:37Limitations and Paralysis
15. 32:19Check Compatibility
16. 35:10Dotnet Standard versus Dotnet Core

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