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by pier257 hours ago |
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upvoteby stephbook6 hours ago|
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What I hate about .NET is the atrocious naming.

Net Core, Net Framework, Net Common Core, .NET..

And God forbid any of these frameworks ever expose what they are in a config file. You start a project, hand it to a colleague and he can't figure out whether it's Framework or Core by looking at the files. You Google and are immediately bombarded by 15 year old threads.

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upvoteby Kwpolska4 hours ago|
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If you start a project with .NET Framework in 2026, you're doing it wrong, plain and simple.

And the .csproj files do tell you which .NET they are.

<TargetFrameworkVersion>v4.</TargetFrameworkVersion> or <TargetFramework>net4</TargetFramework> is the old framework. Also, if the file is an unreadable mess listing all .cs files, it's generally .NET Framework.

<TargetFramework>netstandard2.0</TargetFramework> is .NET Standard 2.0, which means this library can be consumed from either Framework or modern .NET.

And finally, <TargetFramework>netX.0</TargetFramework> (X >= 5) is the modern .NET.

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upvoteby DeathArrow21 minutes ago|
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Most web projects use JSON files for configuration. There are also some XML files for project configuration. If anything, you can run into too much configuration files.
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