Standard: Provide a diff between .NET Standard and .NET Core and .NET Framework

[richlander]

I would like to see the following diffs added to the site. I get asked for these diffs all the time. I would like to point folks to the diffs as a simple answer.

• .NET Standard 1.6 <-> .NET Core 1.1
• .NET Standard 2.0 <-> .NET Core 2.0
• .NET Standard 2.0 <-> .NET Framework 4.6.1 (first supported .NET Framework version for NS2)

For the last one, it would be OK if you wanted to cut out certain assemblies/namespaces, provided that this choice was documented.

[khellang]

I'm really interested in the .NET Standard 2.0 <-> .NET Core 2.0 diff, i.e. "what does targeting .NET Core over .NET Standard give me in terms of new APIs?" 😄

[karelz]

@weshaggard is it something we can do soon-ish?

[terrajobst]

On it

[richlander]

@terrajobst -- remember I told you a few days ago that I wanted something from you and wouldn't specify because I was too busy telling you about something else? This was it! ;)

[terrajobst]

Damn. I did it in the wrong order then, didn't I?

[magol]

This is a great idea, both fun and useful to see the difference. What has already been done is, in most cases, sufficient enough. Understand that it is not possible to create diff files between ALL different versions.

There are previously many diff files between different versions, and now also diff files between different .NET Standards and implementations. Could not it be a good idea to create an online tool to compare different versions and implementations with each other? It may be interesting if you want to do a migration work from eg .NET Framework 2.0 to .NET Standard 2.0. Then it may be interesting to know the difference between these to see what new APIs you can use.

But this could also be used to compare with more odd versions of .NET such as Mono and Xamarin.