This .NET Core SDK release is the version which shipped with Visual Studio 2019 today. It includes the previously release .NET Core and ASP.NET Core Runtimes.
Note: If you are a Visual Studio user, there are MSBuild version requirements so use only the .NET Core SDK supported for each Visual Studio version. If you use other development environments, we recommend using the latest SDK release.
| VS Version | .NET Core SDK |
|---|---|
| Visual Studio 2017 (Windows) | 2.1.506 |
| Visual Studio 2019 (Windows) | 2.1.603 |
| Visual Studio for Mac | https://learn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/mac/net-core-support |
| SDK Installer1 | SDK Binaries1 | Runtime Installer | Runtime Binaries | ASP.NET Core Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windows | x86 | x64 | x86 | x64 | x86 | x64 | x86 | x64 | x86 | x64 | Hosting Bundle2 |
| macOS | x64 | x64 | x64 | x64 | x641 |
| Linux | See installations steps below | x64 | ARM | ARM64 | x64 Alpine | - | x64 | ARM | ARM64 | x64 Alpine | x641 | ARM1 | x64 Alpine1 |
| RHEL6 | - | x64 | - | x64 | - |
| Checksums | SDK | - | Runtime | - | - |
| Symbols | CLI | SDK | - | Runtime | Shared Framework | Setup | - | ASP.NET Core |
The .NET Core Docker images have been updated for this release. Details on our Docker versioning and how to work with the images can be seen in “Staying up-to-date with .NET Container Images”.
Before installing .NET, you will need to register the Microsoft key, register the product repository, and install required dependencies. This only needs to be done once per machine. Refer to Setting up Linux for .NET Core for the requirements.
The commands listed below do not specifically include package managers to help with readability. Here are the package managers typically used by the Distros on which .NET Core is supported.
| Distro | Package Manager |
|---|---|
| CentOS, Oracle | yum |
| Debian, Ubuntu | apt-get |
| Fedora | dnf |
| OpenSUSE, SLES | zypper |
To develop applications using the .NET Core SDK, run the following command. The .NET Core runtime and ASP.NET Core runtime are included.
sudo [package manager] update or refresh
sudo [package manager] install dotnet-sdk-2.1
If you only need to run existing applications, run the following command. The .NET Core runtime and ASP.NET Core runtime are included.
sudo [package manager] update or refresh
sudo [package manager] install aspnetcore-runtime-2.1
Installing from the packages detailed above is recommended or you can install from binary archive, if that better suits your needs. When using binary archives to install, the contents must be extracted to a user location such as $HOME/dotnet, a symbolic link created for dotnet and a few dependencies installed. Dependency requirements can be seen in the Linux System Prerequisites document.
mkdir -p $HOME/dotnet && tar zxf dotnet.tar.gz -C $HOME/dotnet
export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/dotnet
If only the .NET Core Runtime is needed, install dotnet-runtime-2.1 using your package manager. If you also need ASP.NET Core functionality, installing aspnetcore-runtime-2.1 will install both the ASP Runtime and .NET Core Runtime.
If you are looking to host stand-alone apps on Servers, the following installer can be used on Windows systems.
You can download the Windows Server Hosting installer and run the following command from an Administrator command prompt:
This will install the ASP.NET Core Module for IIS.