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The Microsoft .NET Portable Library Reference Assemblies 4.6 is a set of reference assemblies that can be used to compile .NET source code as a Portable Class Library (PCL), on any platform.

• The Microsoft .NET Portable Library Reference Assemblies 4.6 is a set of reference assemblies that can be used to compile .NET source code as a Portable Class Library (PCL). PCL libraries can be used in many apps and across platforms, such as Windows Phone, Windows Store and Windows Azure. It is the same set that is used in Visual Studio 2013.Read the Microsoft .NET Portable Library Reference Assemblies 4.6 announcement post to learn more.

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Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

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NetFx_PortableLibraryReferenceAssemblies46.exe SHA1: 5b086f6bf4651314f9390304be46aff31bc400b9	8.98 MB

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