.NET Standard Libraries and Versions

.NET Standard libraries are a great way to share functionality between .NET Framework and .NET Core and other stuff too.

However there are a few things to be aware of.  The documentation says to choose the lowest version you can for maximum support but depending on what you need to support as far as API you may need to use a higher version.  As I run into them I will report specifics on what version you need if you are using a given function.

v1.1

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v1.3 

• System.IO.File
• System.IO.FileStream (.Close() is not supported however you can use the using)  
• Encoding.ASCII
• System.IO.Compression.ZipFile
• System.Console

v2.0

• Type type; type.GetProperties()
• System.Runtime.Serialization
• AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory
• Assembly.LoadFrom

If you come across any that I have missed please comment below and I will pull them up to the post or you can also email me at chris.williams@readwatchcreate.com