.NET Core 2.0 had a surprise release this week, right in the middle of my posting schedule. So let's take a step back from ASP.NET Core middleware and dissect the news, install the latest version and see what we can do with it.
Now that the first previews of .NET Core and .NET Standard 2.0 have been released, we're able to use .NET Framework NuGet packages with .NET Core applications. In this post, I'll run you through the steps required to use a .NET Framework NuGet package in a .NET Core 2.0 application, and we'll build a .NET Core 2.0 desktop application which consumes an amazing .NET Framework class library.
A round up of some of the bigger news items in the .NET Core SDK and relating tooling space. Including a mention of a release date for .NET Core 2.0, changes to templating in the SDK and even Visual Studio 2017