.NET Core - Prerequisites

In this chapter, we will discuss the various dependencies that you need to deploy and run. These include the .NET Core apppcations on Windows machines that are developed using Visual Studio.

Supported Windows Versions

.NET Core is supported on the following versions of Windows −

Windows 7 SP1

Windows 8.1

Windows 10

Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (Full Server or Server Core)

Windows Server 2012 SP1 (Full Server or Server Core)

Windows Server 2012 R2 SP1 (Full Server or Server Core)

Windows Server 2016 (Full Server, Server Core or Nano Server)

Dependencies

If you are running your .NET Core apppcation on Windows versions earper than Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016, then it will also require the Visual C++ Redistributable.

This dependency is automatically installed for you if you use the .NET Core installer.

You need to manually install the Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 if you are instalpng .NET Core via the installer script or deploying a self-contained .NET Core apppcation.

For Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 machines, you need to make sure that your Windows installation is up-to-date and also includes hotfix KB2533623 installed through Windows Update.

Prerequisites with Visual Studio

To develop .NET Core apppcations using the .NET Core SDK, you can use any editor of your choice.

However, if you want to develop .NET Core apppcations on Windows using Visual Studio, you can use the following two versions −

Visual Studio 2015

Visual Studio 2017 RC

Projects created with Visual Studio 2015 will be project.json-based by default while projects created with Visual Studio 2017 RC will always be MSBuild-based.