What is the difference between the nuget packages hangfire.aspnetcore and hangfire and hangfire.core?

Question

What is the difference between the nuget packages HangFire.AspNetCore and HangFire and HangFire.core?

It seems I am able to use hangfire with a ASP .NET MVC Core project with only the HangFire 1.6.21 package alone. See below packages used in my project:

What is then the package HangFire.AspNetCore for?

I am working with Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu, and I added the packages using :

dotnet add package Hangfire

dotnet add package Hangfire.AspNetCore

Oestrogen

Links added, thanks for the head up. – Oestrogen

Answer 1

It's the usual naming convention for NuGet packages:

• HangFire is the package name and the main package which includes all dependencies needed. This main package targets .NET framework in this case.
• HangFire.Core is package that includes the core components, to which all variants of the package will probably be dependent on.
• HangFire.AspNetCore is extension to support .NET Core

Weightless

Thanks. Any idea how come I can use hangfire jobs with .NET Core without HangFire.AspNetCore? – Oestrogen

It's not possible. Why wouldn't you use AspNetCore package? – Weightless

As far as I can tell, I am able to schedule and run background jobs using hangfire 1.6.21 without HangFire.AspNetCore on my ASP Core project on Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu. This is why I am asking what are the specificities of this package? Maybe it is an obsolete one? – Oestrogen

It was automatically downloaded, check your packages. – Weightless

That is correct, thanks. Based on nuget, the Hangfire package's dependencies include Hangfire.AspNetCore (= 1.6.21) and Hangfire.Core (= 1.6.21) and Hangfire.SqlServer (= 1.6.21) – Oestrogen