This repo contains the code to build the .NET deployment tools and installers for all supported platforms, as well as the sources to .NET deployment tools.

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Official Starting Page: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/

• How to use .NET (with VS, VS Code, command-line CLI)
  • Install official releases
  • Documentation (Get Started, Tutorials, Porting from .NET Framework, API reference, ...)
    • Deploying apps
  • Supported OS versions
• Roadmap
• Releases

We welcome contributions! Many people all over the world have helped make this project better.

• Contributing explains what kinds of changes we welcome
• Get Up and Running on .NET Core explains how to get nightly builds of the runtime and its libraries to test them in your own projects.

To build the whole repo:

build

After you've built binaries, you can create packages, by running the following:

build -pack

Security issues and bugs should be reported privately, via email, to the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) secure@microsoft.com. You should receive a response within 24 hours. If for some reason you do not, please follow up via email to ensure we received your original message. Further information, including the MSRC PGP key, can be found in the Security TechCenter.

Also see info about related Microsoft .NET Core and ASP.NET Core Bug Bounty Program.

This repo should contain issues that are tied to .NET deployment tools and its installation packages.

For other issues, please use the following repos:

• For overall .NET SDK issues, file in the dotnet/sdk repo
• For ASP.NET issues, file in the dotnet/aspnetcore repo.

• .NET Core source index / .NET Framework source index
• API Reference docs
• .NET API Catalog (incl. APIs from daily builds and API usage info)
• API docs writing guidelines - useful when writing /// comments

.NET Deployment Tools is a .NET Foundation project.

There are many .NET related projects on GitHub.

• .NET home repo - links to 100s of .NET projects, from Microsoft and the community.
• ASP.NET Core home - the best place to start learning about ASP.NET Core.

This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information, see the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct.

General .NET OSS discussions: .NET Foundation forums

.NET (including the deployment-tools repo) is licensed under the MIT license.