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I'm wondering what it means, exactly, when I have a .NET Core console app project that has its TargetFramework property (in the .csproj) set to a version of the full .NET Framework, e.g. 

<TargetFramework>net461</TargetFramework>
  • If I compile this as a console application, will it use the .NET Core runtime, or the .NET Framework runtime?
  • If it uses the .NET Core runtime, can I encounter any incompatibilities between supported features in .NET Core and .NET Framework if I remain on the Windows platform?
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If you have <TargetFramework>net461</TargetFramework>, then you don't have a .NET Core console app. You have a .NET Framework app that simply makes use of the newer csproj tweaks in the project file, and which can be easily built with the dotnet command-line tool.

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Yes, I suspected as much. Does this also mean that it will use the standard .NET runtime?
@Eyvind yes, it is 100% regular .NET Framework; if you want to target .NET Core, you need to use netcoreapp{version}; note that libraries can declare themselves agnostic by targeting netstandard{version}; what they actually end up running on depends on what the executable targets

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