Using "ASP.NET Core shared framework" - additional links and clarification sought

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Description

The documentation on Use the ASP.NET Core shared framework has this statement

assemblies are included in the Microsoft.AspNetCore.App shared framework, which is installed with the .NET Core SDK and runtime installers.

On nuget.org the package Microsoft.AspNetCore.App is marked as deprecated as it is legacy and is no longer maintained.

It is not clear to me

• whether Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Ref or Microsoft.AspNetCore.App.Runtime.win-x64 is the successor of the ASP.NET Core shared framework:

• or if there is still a separate download package for AspNetCore or if it is only available as part of the .NET SDK, for example for SDK 9.0.100.

Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/target-aspnetcore?view=aspnetcore-9.0&tabs=visual-studio#use-the-aspnet-core-shared-framework

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs/blob/main/aspnetcore/fundamentals/target-aspnetcore.md

Document ID

cdb2b89f-bf1c-f313-0062-7f6b7ef8b611

Article author

@Rick-Anderson

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[Rick-Anderson]

I think this doc is clear

With the release of .NET Core 3.0, many ASP.NET Core assemblies are no longer published to NuGet as packages. Instead, the assemblies are included in the Microsoft.AspNetCore.App shared framework, which is installed with the .NET Core SDK and runtime installers.