From the course: Building Cloud Connected Universal Windows Apps

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.NET and UWP development

.NET and UWP development

- [Instructor] In the recent past .NET has undergone changes that positively impact UWP developers. Some broad .NET changes include: the introduction of .NET Core, and .NET Standard Library. While more UWP specific improvements include .Net Native and .NET distribution with NuGet. Let's start by taking a look at the .NET world to fully understand how UWP works with .NET. Today .NET exists as three major entities, the full .NET framework that traditional Windows desktop applications are built on, .NET Core which is what UWP is built on, and the Xamarin framework, also know as Mono. One specific advantage of .NET Core over the traditional .NET framework is that .NET is actually distributed with the app rather than the operating system. This allows for faster innovation as a developer. As soon as a new version of .NET is available you can update your .NET target and leverage new APIs and updates, you no longer have to wait for you app consumer to update the version of .NET framework on…

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