Today, Microsoft announced availability of .NET Core 2.0. You can develop .NET Core 2.0 applications now using Visual Studio 2017 15.3, Visual Studio Code or Visual Studio for Mac.
Microsoft also released ASP.NET Core 2.0 and Entity Framework Core 2.0.
The .NET Standard 2.0 spec is complete, finalized at the same time as .NET Core 2.0. .NET Standard is a key effort to improve code sharing and to make the APIs available in each .NET implementation more consistent.
Watch the following video to learn more about .NET Core 2.0 and its features.