Bundling the runtime/core framework isn't required. .NET Core applications can be deployed as portable or standalone. Portable: runtime must be installed on ta

Bundling the runtime/core framework isn't required. .NET Core applications can be deployed as portable or standalone. Portable: runtime must be installed on target machine Standalone: runtime bundled with application Portable is how non-Core .NET apps have always been, and I believe all the templates in the Visual Studio preview tooling are setup as portable apps. The docs have a good explanation of the differences, and how to configure a project to support either deployment strategy: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/core/deploying/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/core/deploy...