What's new in .Net Core 2.0

New  featured in NET Core 2.0

• Fastest version of .NET ever

• More APIs

• More project templates

• More distros

• Simplified packaging

• New and improved Visual Studio tooling

• Visual Studio for Mac support

Has much bigger API surface

Extended to cover intersection between .NET Framework and Xamarin

Also makes .NET Core 2.0 bigger as it implements .NET Standard 2.0

+20K More APIs than .NET Standard I.x

Can reference .NET Framework libraries

Compatibility shim allows referencing existing .NET Framework binaries

No recompile required — also covers existing NuGet packages 

Limited to libraries that only use APIs that are available for .NET Standard

~70% of NuGet packages are API compatible