Creating a cross-platform application

We have previously discovered how to use NAV web services from a console application written using C# and the full .NET Framework. This application can run on all the Windows systems.

But how we can interact with NAV web services from other platforms, for example from a Linux or a Mac OS machine? We can use .NET Core!

.NET Core is a new open source subset of the .NET Framework. It shares a common baseline with the full .NET stack and it's composed of the following parts:

• A .NET runtime

• A set of base .NET Framework libraries, APIs that are available on all platforms and .NET runtimes

• A set of SDK tools and compilers

• The dotnet application host, used to execute .NET Core applications

Let's take a look at the following steps to create a cross-platform application:

1. In the following figure, you can find a schema for the actual .NET development platform:

   

2. You can download and install .NET Core SDK from the following link: https://microsoft.com/net/core.

3. The best way...