[Solved] What is the difference between .net Core multi target and .net Standard?

Question

You would need to target multiple frameworks in the csproj file. In the original launch of Visual Studio 2017 there’s no UI for this, but you can do it manually. I believe that there will be UI support for this in an update.

It’s just a matter of changing the <TargetFramework> element to <TargetFrameworks> and using a semi-colon-separated list of targets. For example, in Noda Time I have:

<TargetFrameworks>net45;netstandard1.3</TargetFrameworks>

You could have:

<TargetFrameworks>netcoreapp1.0;netstandard1.3</TargetFrameworks>

However, you’d only want to do this if you wanted to take advantage (conditionally) of some features that are only available in .NET Core, and not in .NET Standard.

Accepted Answer

You would need to target multiple frameworks in the csproj file. In the original launch of Visual Studio 2017 there’s no UI for this, but you can do it manually. I believe that there will be UI support for this in an update.

It’s just a matter of changing the <TargetFramework> element to <TargetFrameworks> and using a semi-colon-separated list of targets. For example, in Noda Time I have:

<TargetFrameworks>net45;netstandard1.3</TargetFrameworks>

You could have:

<TargetFrameworks>netcoreapp1.0;netstandard1.3</TargetFrameworks>

However, you’d only want to do this if you wanted to take advantage (conditionally) of some features that are only available in .NET Core, and not in .NET Standard.