It's not that complex but I think it's just that .NET naming and versions are currently quite confusing. I did a lot of reading on this for the book I wrote and

It's not that complex but I think it's just that .NET naming and versions are currently quite confusing. I did a lot of reading on this for the book I wrote and I still find I need to double-check things. I guess this is what you get when you try and munge three platforms together. Package support is very important for uptake and many library authors were waiting for some stability. I found this out when researching the support matrix at https://anclafs.com https://anclafs.com. If you look at the volume of MS docs on this you would be forgiven for thinking it's complicated: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/09/26/introducing-net-standard/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2016/09/26/introduci... https://github.com/dotnet/standard/blob/master/docs/faq.md https://github.com/dotnet/standard/blob/master/docs/faq.md https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/standard/library https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/standard/li... https://blog.xamarin.com/net-standard-library-support-for-xamarin/ https://blog.xamarin.com/net-standard-library-support-for-xa...