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Chapter 3. Features and benefits

3.1. Current features and benefits
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.NET Core 2.1 offers the following features and benefits.

  • Runtime and framework libraries

    .NET Core consists of the CoreCLR runtime and the CoreFX framework libraries as well as compilers, build tools, tools to fetch NuGet packages, and a command-line interface to tie everything together. Benefits include:

    • Automatic memory management
    • Type safety
    • Delegates and lambdas
    • Generic types
    • Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
    • Async programming
    • Native interoperability

  • .NET Core 2.1 supports developing applications using ASP.NET Core 2.1 and EF Core 2.1, which bring benefits such as:

    • Lightweight and modular HTTP request pipeline
    • Ability to host on a web server or self-host in your own process
    • Built on .NET Core, which supports true side-by-side app versioning
    • Integrated support for creating and using NuGet packages
    • Single aligned web stack for web UI and web APIs
    • Cloud-ready environment-based configuration
    • Built-in support for dependency injection
    • New tools that simplify modern web development

3.2. New features and benefits
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.NET Core 2.1 continues to broaden its support and tools for application development in an open source environment. The latest version of .NET Core includes the following improvements:

  • Improved build performance
  • Improved runtime performance
  • Improved networking performance
  • Span<T> based APIs for reducing allocations
  • Extended Cryptography APIs
  • Support for Brotli compression
  • A new deployment mechanism for tools
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