In an effort to unify .NET, Microsoft has recently released a major update they are calling .NET 5.0. If you recall, the last .NET Core version was 3.X, so you may be asking what happened to .NET Core 4.X? Microsoft decided to skip that version and go straight to .NET 5.0 and drop the “Core” naming convention. They did so to avoid confusion – but they are retaining the ASP.NET Core 5.0 name. In any case, these kind of moves are always confusing even if you try to diffuse the confusion so it will probably take another version or two to iron things out.
But the point of this blog post is to announce that we support .NET 5.0 or ASP.NET Core 5.0 on our Windows 2012 and Windows 2016 servers. So feel free to experiment, learn, update and deploy your .NET 5 apps.
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