.NET Core

Introduction

Warning

.NET scripts belong in your home, not in your docroot.

.NET is a server-side runtime implementation of CLR, the virtual machine that manages the execution of .NET programs. While .NET Core shares a subset of .NET Framework APIs, it comes with its own API that is not part of .NET Framework.


Versions

Release types

We provide the latest .NET Core LTS and apply security updates on a regular basis.

We also provide older versions; you can get a full list of curently available versions with dotnet --list-sdks.

Update policy

We update all supported versions on a regular basis.

Branch

State

Supported Until

7.0

current

2024-05

6.0.2

LTS

2024-11

5.0

2022-02

3.1

2022-12-03

2.1

2021-08-21


Getting started

Check out the Hello, Console App!.


Connection to webserver

In order to make your application accessable from the outside, you need to connect it to the webserver, using a web backend.

Please note that your application must listen on the IP 0.0.0.0. You can choose any port between 1024 and 65535.


Caveats

Privacy

.NET collects telemetry data by default. This can be turned off by setting the environment variable DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT to 1.