Summary

The .NET ecosystem is growing at an exponential velocity with the new, open-source oriented approach being adopted by Microsoft. Various runtimes and frameworks are part of community-driven projects that cover bigger portions of the original .NET framework which was, ironically, destined to be part of Windows itself.

Using the .NET Core infrastructure and the provided runtimes, developers can, nowadays, develop applications for mobile platforms such as iOS, Android, and UWP, as well as micro runtimes such as Windows IoT Core, Raspbian, and Tizen. Setting device-specific runtimes aside, Azure and web development can also be accomplished using .NET Core.

In the remainder of this book, we will be implementing a Xamarin.Forms application using the Mono runtime and creating a web infrastructure composed of Serverless (Logic Apps and Functions) components, as well as ASP.NET Core using the .NET Core infrastructure. We will also take a look at additional projects that are closely related to the .NET ecosystem, such as cognitive services and machine learning, and how they can be used to enhance the user experience.