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Relationship between Base Class Library and .NET Standard

A rookie question: .Net Standard set of APIs are a "subset" of a .NET's Base Class Library (BCL) implementation, like Mono? That is, a BCL is bigger set than .NET Standard's set of APIs?

Solution

  • enter image description here.NET Standard defines uniform set of BCL APIs for all .NET implementations to implement, independent of workload. It is the set of fundamental APIs (generally known as base class library or BCL).