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by barake 3535 days ago
Bundling the runtime/core framework isn't required. .NET Core applications can be deployed as portable or standalone.

Portable: runtime must be installed on target machine Standalone: runtime bundled with application

Portable is how non-Core .NET apps have always been, and I believe all the templates in the Visual Studio preview tooling are setup as portable apps.

The docs have a good explanation of the differences, and how to configure a project to support either deployment strategy:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/articles/core/deploy...