Chapter 3. Features and Benefits
3.1. Current Features and Benefits Copy linkLink copied to clipboard!
.NET Core 2.2 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 2.2 supports developing applications using ASP.NET Core 2.2 and EF Core 2.2, which bring benefits such as:
- New 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
- Available entirely as NuGet packages
- 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 tooling that simplifies modern web development
3.2. New Features and Benefits Copy linkLink copied to clipboard!
.NET Core 2.2 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:
- Open API Analyzers and Conventions to produce better Open API documentation for ASP.NET Core
- Better link generation, more customizable and faster routing in ASP.NET Core
- Faster MVC validation in ASP.NET Core
- Built-in support for health checks for running in container-style environment
- Support for HTTP 2 in Kestrel
- HTTP Client performance improvements
- Support for SignalR clients written in Java
- Updated templates for ASP.NET Core applications, including Bootstrap 4