The .NET platform has been revolutionized with the advent of .NET Core. A platform once limited primarily to Windows is now officially supported on just about any platform that you'd like to develop and run applications. In this course, Building Cross-platform Applications with .NET Core, you'll learn how to develop and run .NET Core apps on a variety of platforms. You'll learn how to publish your app to run on different runtimes as well as understand different deployment models and how to test both platform agnostic and platform specific functionality. You'll see how to work with files, app configuration, logging, and dependency injection. You'll also learn how to build console app, services and web endpoints to see that you can create just about any type of app. Finally you'll get an update on the state .of the .NET Core tooling that's still being developed including the latest changes to use the MSBuild project system. By the time you're done, you'll know what it takes to successfully develop a cross-platform .NET Core application.