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That does introduce some ambiguity, I just don't know how often people google things like that. And if searching "how to authorize HTTP request .NET" (or similar) is a common occurrence, I reckon there's a bigger problem lurking beneath the surface there...


It's worse on less formal communication, but shorthand "We're targeting .NET" might mean

"We're targeting .NET (Standard)" (Which works on both Framework and used to be Core / current .NET)

"We're targeting .NET (Framework)" (Used to be shortened to .NET)

"We're targeting .NET" (Formerly .NET Core) / (6/7/8/9), current recomendation being to call this one just .NET (But not always respected, and not retroactively applied

If legacy wasn't a thing, there wouldn't be much trouble, but since many libraries and some functionality does get backported, you might be stuck with documentation doing any of them, maybe even inconsistently




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