What is .NET 5.0

Microsoft’s primary goal with the release of .NET 5.0 is to merge all future .NET development onto one unified .NET platform. All of Microsoft’s different development environments, such as WinForms, WPF, ASP. NET, Xamarin, etc. are all moving to .NET Core, which will now be known as “.NET.”

.NET 5.0 is technically .NET 5.0 Core, but 5.0 intends to clean up and simplify the terminology for future development in .NET. The version number is skipping straight from 3.0 to 5.0 to prevent confusion due to .NET Framework using the 4.x version numbering for quite some time now. After .NET 5.0,Microsoft’s roadmap shows that they plan to keep the versioning simple with yearly major releases every November going from 5.0 to 6.0 to 7.0, and so on.

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