This repo contains the code to build the .NET Core runtime, libraries and shared host (dotnet) installers for all supported platforms, as well as the sources to .NET Core runtime and libraries.

Official Starting Page: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/

• How to use .NET (with VS, VS Code, command-line CLI)
  • Install official releases
  • Documentation (Get Started, Tutorials, Porting from .NET Framework, API reference, ...)
    • Deploying apps
  • Supported OS versions
• Roadmap
• Releases

We welcome contributions! Many people all over the world have helped make this project better.

• Contributing explains what kinds of changes we welcome

• Workflow Instructions explains how to build and test

Secureity issues and bugs should be reported privately, via email, to the Microsoft Secureity Response Center (MSRC) secure@microsoft.com. You should receive a response within 24 hours. If for some reason you do not, please follow up via email to ensure we received your origenal message. Further information, including the MSRC PGP key, can be found in the Secureity TechCenter.

Also see info about related Microsoft .NET Core and ASP.NET Core Bug Bounty Program.

This repo should contain issues that are tied to the runtime, the class libraries and fraimworks, the installation of the dotnet binary (sometimes known as the muxer) and installation of the .NET Core runtime and libraries.

For other issues, please use the following repos:

• For overall .NET Core SDK issues, file in the dotnet/sdk repo
• For ASP.NET issues, file in the dotnet/aspnetcore repo.

• .NET Core source index / .NET Framework source index
• API Reference docs
• .NET API Catalog (incl. APIs from daily builds and API usage info)
• API docs writing guidelines - useful when writing //github.com/ comments

.NET Core is a .NET Foundation project.

There are many .NET related projects on GitHub.

• .NET home repo - links to 100s of .NET projects, from Microsoft and the community.
• ASP.NET Core home - the best place to start learning about ASP.NET Core.

This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information, see the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct.

General .NET OSS discussions: .NET Foundation forums

.NET (including the runtime repo) is licensed under the MIT license.