- .NET Core Tutorial
- .NET Core - Home
- .NET Core - Overview
- .NET Core - Prerequisites
- .NET Core - Environment Setup
- .NET Core - Getting Started
- .NET Core - Numerics
- .NET Core - Garbage Collection
- .NET Core - Code Execution
- .NET Core - Modularity
- .NET Core - Project Files
- .NET Core - Package References
- Create UWP App with .NET Core
- .NET Core - MSBuild
- .NET Core - Metapackage
- Windows Runtime & Extension SDKs
- Create .NET Standard Library
- .NET Core - Portable Class Library
- Adding References to Library
- Sharing .NET Core Libraries
- Creating a Xamarin.Forms Project
- .NET Core - PCL Troubleshooting
- .NET Core - Create a Testing Project
- Running Tests in Visual Studio
- .NET Core - Testing Library
- Managed Extensibility Framework
- .NET Core - SDK
- .NET Core - MSBuild & project.json
- Restoring and Building & MSBuild
- .NET Core - Migrations
- .NET Core Useful Resources
- .NET Core - Quick Guide
- .NET Core - Useful Resources
- .NET Core - Discussion
.NET Core - Prerequisites
In this chapter, we will discuss the various dependencies that you need to deploy and run. These include the .NET Core applications on Windows machines that are developed using Visual Studio.
Supported Windows Versions
.NET Core is supported on the following versions of Windows −
- Windows 7 SP1
- Windows 8.1
- Windows 10
- Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (Full Server or Server Core)
- Windows Server 2012 SP1 (Full Server or Server Core)
- Windows Server 2012 R2 SP1 (Full Server or Server Core)
- Windows Server 2016 (Full Server, Server Core or Nano Server)
Dependencies
If you are running your .NET Core application on Windows versions earlier than Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, then it will also require the Visual C++ Redistributable.
This dependency is automatically installed for you if you use the .NET Core installer.
You need to manually install the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 if you are installing .NET Core via the installer script or deploying a self-contained .NET Core application.
For Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 machines, you need to make sure that your Windows installation is up-to-date and also includes hotfix KB2533623 installed through Windows Update.
Prerequisites with Visual Studio
To develop .NET Core applications using the .NET Core SDK, you can use any editor of your choice.
However, if you want to develop .NET Core applications on Windows using Visual Studio, you can use the following two versions −
Visual Studio 2015
Visual Studio 2017 RC
Projects created with Visual Studio 2015 will be project.json-based by default while projects created with Visual Studio 2017 RC will always be MSBuild-based.