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.NET Core
Introduction
Warning
.NET scripts belong in your :doc:`home <basics-home>`, not in your :doc:`docroot <web-documentroot>`.
.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
Caveats
Privacy
.NET collects telemetry data by default. This can be turned off by setting the environment variable DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT to 1.