Monday 7 May 2018

What are Portable Class Libraries?

Purpose:
  • This is a reasonable test to see if someone has any experience with the older strategies of portability in the .NET framework.
  • This perhaps does not not tell you much about a candidate since they could simply never have had a need to play with portability. But it is a good sign if someone has some experience in this domain.

Potential Answer:
PCLs allow for code sharing across platforms. They became very well known with frameworks like Xamarin and Silverlight originally. Although PCLs are supported in the .Net development environment, the defacto position at this stage of the game is that developers should support netstandard instead. The .NET Platform Standard is an evolution of PCLs and represents binary portability across platforms.

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