Designing Cross Platform Applications on .NET Core by Kevin Griffin

February 15, 2024

From CodeMash 2018:
Designing Cross Platform Applications on .NET Core
Kevin Griffin
If you have been developing .NET applications within the past 15 years, you have traditionally been
supporting only Windows. Because, of course, the .NET Framework was designed to only run on
Windows.
If you were adventurous, you could attempt to run your application on Linux or Mac using the Mono
compiler. However, some inconsistencies in the implementation of common libraries meant you had
to target one environment or another — never both.
With the release of .NET Core, the prophecy of being able to build true cross-platform applications
using .NET is coming true! However, it isn’t as easy as File, New. Design decisions you make can
impact your ability to easy work across platforms. In this presentation, attendees will learn how to
create cross platform .NET Core applications and how to avoid the pitfalls that will land them back
into Windows-only mode.