Standards are important; that's why we have so many of them. The latest version of the .NET Standard is version 2, and .NET Core 2 implements this. A good way to think about .NET Standard is it's an interface that a class would implement. The interface will define an abstract API, but the concrete implementation of this API will be left to the classes that inherit from it. Another way to think about this is like the HTML5 standard that is supported by different web browsers.
Version 2 of the .NET Standard was defined by looking at the intersection of the .NET Framework and Mono. This standard was then implemented by .NET Core 2, which is why it contains more APIs than version 1. Version 4.6.1 of the .NET Framework also implements ...
