.NET Core is a ground-up rewrite of the frameworks and tools. It's completely decoupled from Visual Studio. This would get you started on a toy project (one sou

.NET Core is a ground-up rewrite of the frameworks and tools. It's completely decoupled from Visual Studio. This would get you started on a toy project (one source file, one project file) now: dotnet new console --output sample1 dotnet publish --self-contained -r linux-x64 sample1 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/get-started https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/get-started