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Re:ASP.NET Core 3.0 will only run on .NET Core by hermitdev on Friday November 02, 2018 @03:24PM (#18365933)
You've never needed Visual Studio to build .Net projects. They have supported MSBuild from v1.0, you just needed to write the project files by hand - a very tedious process.

It's just that building from Visual Studio is by far the most convenient method.

Re:ASP.NET Core 3.0 will only run on .NET Core by pjmlp on Friday November 02, 2018 @03:59PM (#18366226)
MSBuild was introduced around .NET 2.0 after Ant's introduction in the Java world.

Before there was a project format, callable with devenv command line tool.