NET Standard in your projects, install one of the SDKs from the. NET APIs that are intended to be available on all. NET Standard is a formal specification of. We recommend moving to a supported release. This release has reached end of life, meaning it's no longer supported. Use LTS if you need to stay supported on the same version of. Long-term support (LTS) releases have an extended support period. These releases are supported for production use since they have a go-live license.Ĭurrent is the most recent stable release, with the latest features and bug fixes. Release candidate (RC) releases provide early access to features and are feature complete. Runtime Do you want to run apps? The runtime includes everything you need to run. NET Core applications, using command-line tools and any editor (like Visual Studio).
Visual Studio 2019 SDK Do you want to build apps? The software development kit (SDK) includes everything you need to build and run. Visual Studio 2017 SDK Do you want to build apps? The software development kit (SDK) includes everything you need to build and run.