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.NET Core Application Types

We can create two types of applications in .NET Core.

  1. Portable Application
  2. Self-contained application

Portable Application:

Portable applications are applications which expect .NET Core runtime on the deployment machines. It cannot be run on a machine which does not have .NET Core runtime installed.

.NET Core Portable Application

Self-contained Application:

Self-contained applications are applications which include .NET Core runtime when we publish it. It can run on a machine which does not have .NET Core runtime installed.

.NET Core Self-contained Application

Configure Application Type:

We can configure ASP.NET Core application as portable or self-contained application using type property of Microsoft.NETCore.App dependency in project.json. The "type":"platform" indicates that this application expects .NET Core on the machine. This makes it a portable application.

For the self-contained application, remove type-platform from the dependency. This makes it a self-contained application which means .NET Core will be included when you build and publish an application.

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