core VS sdk

Compare core vs sdk and see what are their differences.

core

.NET news, announcements, release notes, and more! (by dotnet)

sdk

Core functionality needed to create .NET Core projects, that is shared between Visual Studio and CLI (by dotnet)
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core sdk
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20,557 2,532
0.6% 1.8%
9.2 10.0
8 days ago 2 days ago
PowerShell C#
MIT License MIT License
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core

Posts with mentions or reviews of core. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-09.
  • .NET Monthly Roundup - March 2024 - .NET 9 Preview 2, Smart Components, AI fun, and more!
    2 projects | dev.to | 9 Apr 2024
    🌟.NET 9 Preview 2 ➡️.NET 9 Preview 2 Discussion ➡️ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 9 Preview 2 ➡️ASP.NET Core updates in .NET 9 Preview 2 Release Notes ➡️EF Core updates in .NET 9 Preview 2 ➡️.NET Aspire preview 4 - .NET Aspire
  • Locally test and validate your Renovate configuration files
    4 projects | dev.to | 9 Apr 2024
    DEBUG: packageFiles with updates (repository=local) "config": { "nuget": [ { "deps": [ { "datasource": "nuget", "depType": "nuget", "depName": "Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting", "currentValue": "7.0.0", "updates": [ { "bucket": "non-major", "newVersion": "7.0.1", "newValue": "7.0.1", "releaseTimestamp": "2023-02-14T13:21:52.713Z", "newMajor": 7, "newMinor": 0, "updateType": "patch", "branchName": "renovate/dotnet-monorepo" }, { "bucket": "major", "newVersion": "8.0.0", "newValue": "8.0.0", "releaseTimestamp": "2023-11-14T13:23:17.653Z", "newMajor": 8, "newMinor": 0, "updateType": "major", "branchName": "renovate/major-dotnet-monorepo" } ], "packageName": "Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting", "versioning": "nuget", "warnings": [], "sourceUrl": "https://github.com/dotnet/runtime", "registryUrl": "https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json", "homepage": "https://dot.net/", "currentVersion": "7.0.0", "isSingleVersion": true, "fixedVersion": "7.0.0" } ], "packageFile": "RenovateDemo.csproj" } ] }
  • The full API diff between .NET 7 and .NET 8
    1 project | /r/csharp | 17 Nov 2023
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Nov 2023
  • Why isn’t dotnet core popular among startups?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2023
    The tooling is not entirely open or freely available.

    If you, for e.g., want to debug you have to use MS tooling.[0] You also can't use VSCodium because only the MS built/distributed version of VSCode contains the necessary proprietary binary blobs necessary to debug C# (which also means you're forced to using the aggressive telemetry and other data collection built into the non-open source distribution of VSCode).

    They've also taken steps to lock down the LSP support for C#, which once again requires that you use a MS sanctioned code editor to write C#. [1]

    I really enjoy writing C# and think dotnet is a great platform to develop for, but the barriers preventing me from building more projects on it is that I don't want to be forced to use VSCode or Visual Studio.

    [0] https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/505

  • New 64-bit game client
    1 project | /r/WoSB | 1 Jul 2023
    Microsoft does not adapt their new products to operating systems (https://github.com/dotnet/core/issues/7556) which have reached End-of-Support status. Therefore, the game's system requirements have changed:
  • //////. How can you use the finder outer to recover lost crypto? ///
    3 projects | /r/TheShamanway | 10 May 2023
    Thanks to .Net core
  • Consulta Git Exclude Files
    1 project | /r/programacion | 3 May 2023
  • The Primeagen has thoughts on the RF’s licensing proposal
    1 project | /r/rust | 10 Apr 2023
  • Announcing BitcoinCashClient - A NuGet library for easy integration of BCH into any C# .NET application
    2 projects | /r/btc | 4 Apr 2023

sdk

Posts with mentions or reviews of sdk. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-06.
  • Programmatically elevate a .NET application on any platform
    2 projects | dev.to | 6 Feb 2024
    [DllImport("libc")] private static extern uint geteuid(); public bool IsCurrentProcessElevated() { if (RuntimeInformation.IsOSPlatform(OSPlatform.Windows)) { // https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/blob/v6.0.100/src/Cli/dotnet/Installer/Windows/WindowsUtils.cs#L38 using var identity = WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent(); var principal = new WindowsPrincipal(identity); return principal.IsInRole(WindowsBuiltInRole.Administrator); } // https://github.com/dotnet/maintenance-packages/blob/62823150914410d43a3fd9de246d882f2a21d5ef/src/Common/tests/TestUtilities/System/PlatformDetection.Unix.cs#L58 // 0 is the ID of the root user return geteuid() == 0; }
  • Swift was always going to be part of the OS
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Dec 2023
    > There's definitely things they tried to improve on that... weren't really improvements. The way "assemblies" are matched in .NET is much more sophisticated- the goal there was to try to kill DLL hell. It evolved into the Global Assembly Cache, which is sort of the Windows Registry of DLLs. Not a huge fan of those bits.

    The Global Assembly Cache did not make the jump to the modern .NET (Core). There was the thing called `dotnet store`, but it’s broken since .NET 6: https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/24752

    The assembly redirection hell has also been greatly reduced there.

  • .NET Blazor
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Nov 2023
    I do the same.

    I have a small write-up here: https://chrlschn.dev/blog/2023/10/end-to-end-type-safety-wit...

    You get end-to-end type safety (even better once you connect it to EF Core since you get it all ways to your DB).

    With this setup with hot-reload (currently broken in .NET 8 [0]), productivity is really, really good. Like tRPC but with one of the most powerful ORMs out there right now.

    [0] https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/36918

  • Why does dotnet cli not support updating sdk's?
    1 project | /r/dotnet | 16 Nov 2023
    Noticed an open issue just now.
  • .NET 8 – .NET Blog
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Nov 2023
    You're thinking of https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/22247
  • LÖVE: a framework to make 2D games in Lua
    26 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Sep 2023
    That's a twisted and wrong narrative

    Unity like refers to a Editor driven approach

    Unity became popular with its moonscript language (javascript like), they then ditched it to focus on C#, but what propelled unity to what it is today is the Editor driven approach, not c#, not DOTS

    They are forced to transpile C# to C++ via IL2CPP as a result to target consoles/mobiles

    C# is a disease when it comes to console/mobile support

    It's a substantial dependency, quite heavy

    And you are not free of unity like fuck ups, it's a microsoft language after all:

    https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/22247

    And let's not forget when they changed the license of their debugger overnight to prevent people from using it in their products (jetbrains for example)

    And them deprecating open source tooling to a proprietary/closed one for vscode (c# devkit)

    Let's be careful when we recommend evil as an alternative to evil ;)

  • How to run multiple programs like python3 filename.py???
    1 project | /r/csharp | 21 May 2023
    The script can be found at the end of the thread here https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/8742
  • Writing Python like it's Rust
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 May 2023
    Another difference you might be surprised by is that the .NET tooling by default collects various data from your system and sends it to Microsoft [1]. If you want to avoid this (and still want to use .NET) you'll have to make sure that the environment variable DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT is set in all contexts before touching anything.

    [1] https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/6145

  • .NET 8 is on the way! +10 Features that will blow your mind 🤯
    3 projects | dev.to | 18 May 2023
    SDK Pull Request
  • Disadvantages of using F# with Mono?
    2 projects | /r/fsharp | 7 May 2023
    Pretty sure the final file referenced here https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/8742 is the one I am thinking of.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing core and sdk you can also consider the following projects:

homebridge - HomeKit support for the impatient.

kdmapper - KDMapper is a simple tool that exploits iqvw64e.sys Intel driver to manually map non-signed drivers in memory

CompreFace - Leading free and open-source face recognition system

MQTTnet - MQTTnet is a high performance .NET library for MQTT based communication. It provides a MQTT client and a MQTT server (broker). The implementation is based on the documentation from http://mqtt.org/.

double-take - Unified UI and API for processing and training images for facial recognition.

ASP.NET Core - ASP.NET Core is a cross-platform .NET framework for building modern cloud-based web applications on Windows, Mac, or Linux.

Mycodo - An environmental monitoring and regulation system

.NET Runtime - .NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.

Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System

vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

Domoticz - Open source Home Automation System

CoreCLR - CoreCLR is the runtime for .NET Core. It includes the garbage collector, JIT compiler, primitive data types and low-level classes.