Difference between Asp.Net Core 1.0 and .Net Core 1.0?

Question

First of all sorry for my weak English. I have nearly no idea about the differences between asp.net, asp.net core and .net core, etc. I have searched in google about what they are for nearly a whole day. As I have learned, Asp.Net 5 has changed its name to Asp.Net Core 1.0. Also, there is a new framework, .NET Core 1.0, provided to develop cross-platform applications.

Now I have some questions, hopefully not meaningless.

I want to learn the difference between Asp.Net Core 1.0 and .Net Core 1.0. If I want to develop a project, what are the advantages and disadvantages of each?

Lastly if I want to use one of them for a cross-platform application which one is preferable?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

ASP.Net is for web development specifically, .Net is the general framework behind it. So if you're building a web site, REST API, etc. you'd use ASP.Net, otherwise just .Net.

And .Net Core 1.0 released a couple days ago so don't bother with the RC2 version (release candidate).

Your link to 2.0 is to some random Nuget package with a 2.0 version, nothing to do with .Net Core.

Answer 2

.NET Core 1.0 is not the next version of .NET 4.6.2 (Full .NET Framework). If it is the next version it should have more features than the previous version. But according to Microsoft .NET Core 1.0 doesn't have some of the features .NET 4.6 got. That's why they named it as .NET Core 1.0 instead of .NET 5.

In ASP.NET Core 1.0 they are using .NET Core 1.0 as reference. That means we don't need to install .NET framework to run our ASP.NET Core 1.0 application.

If you are going to develop cross platform web application you have to use ASP.NET Core 1.0.