AspNetCore.Docs/aspnetcore/fundamentals/metapackage.md

title	author	description	manager	ms.author	ms.date	ms.prod	ms.technology	ms.topic	uid
Microsoft.AspNetCore.All metapackage for ASP.NET Core 2.x and later	Rick-Anderson	The Microsoft.AspNetCore.All metapackage includes all supported ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core packages, along with their dependencies.	wpickett	riande	09/20/2017	asp.net-core	aspnet	article	fundamentals/metapackage

#Microsoft.AspNetCore.All metapackage for ASP.NET Core 2.x

This feature requires ASP.NET Core 2.x targeting .NET Core 2.x.

The Microsoft.AspNetCore.All metapackage for ASP.NET Core includes:

• All supported packages by the ASP.NET Core team.
• All supported packages by the Entity Framework Core.
• Internal and 3rd-party dependencies used by ASP.NET Core and Entity Framework Core.

All the features of ASP.NET Core 2.x and Entity Framework Core 2.x are included in the Microsoft.AspNetCore.All package. The default project templates use this package.

The version number of the Microsoft.AspNetCore.All metapackage represents the ASP.NET Core version and Entity Framework Core version (aligned with the .NET Core version).

Applications that use the Microsoft.AspNetCore.All metapackage automatically take advantage of the .NET Core Runtime Store. The Runtime Store contains all the runtime assets needed to run ASP.NET Core 2.x applications. When you use the Microsoft.AspNetCore.All metapackage, no assets from the referenced ASP.NET Core NuGet packages are deployed with the application — the .NET Core Runtime Store contains these assets. The assets in the Runtime Store are precompiled to improve application startup time.

You can use the package trimming process to remove packages that you don't use. Trimmed packages are excluded in published application output.

The following .csproj file references the Microsoft.AspNetCore.All metapackage for ASP.NET Core:

[!code-xmlMain]