What is this .NET Core thing anyway?

Have you heard the buzz? .NET Core 2.0 is released, and with it a great compatability story with regular .NET Framework. Want to get started and don't know where to look? Or played with some old project.json projects and want to get restarted? Come journey with us through the fundamental principles of .NET Core, look at how these evolved during the development of .NET Core, and see how you can get started today building and deploying .NET Core products.

Rob Richardson is a software craftsman building web properties in ASP.NET and Node, Angular and React. He’s a Microsoft MVP, published author, frequent speaker at conferences, user groups, and community events, and a diligent teacher and student of high quality software development. You can find this and other talks on his blog at https://robrich.org/presentations and follow him on twitter at @rob_rich.