net-standard-selector.md

.NET Standard versions

.NET Standard is versioned. Each new version adds more APIs. When a library is built against a certain version of .NET Standard, it can run on any .NET implementation that implements that version of .NET Standard (or higher).

Targeting a higher version of .NET Standard allows a library to use more APIs but means it can only be used on more recent versions of .NET. Targeting a lower version reduces the available APIs but means the library can run in more places.

Select .NET Standard version

1.0

[!INCLUDE net-standard-1.0]

1.1

[!INCLUDE net-standard-1.1]

1.2

[!INCLUDE net-standard-1.2]

1.3

[!INCLUDE net-standard-1.3]

1.4

[!INCLUDE net-standard-1.4]

1.5

[!INCLUDE net-standard-1.5]

1.6

[!INCLUDE net-standard-1.6]

2.0

[!INCLUDE net-standard-2.0]

2.1

[!INCLUDE net-standard-2.1]

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