NINicoJuicy·Feb 14, 2022
Where's the issue? https://github.com/dotnet/upgrade-assistant/issues
Additionally: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/architecture/porting...
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2 sourcesIf you are a server side web app, the migration process from legacy net Framework app to net 5/6 has gotten _a lot_ easier in past few years.
The biggest barrier for most in my experience has been getting through the project file (*.csproj) changes needed. Even today, there is still no fully automated way to do it. Thankfully, after ~4 years of community complaints, Microsoft finally aquiessed and made a CLI tool that does about 80 percent of that work:
https://github.com/dotnet/upgrade-assistant
Before the release of this tool, you had to rely on community made tools/guides or just rewrite the project file by hand to the new format. I inherited a project with over 600 large net4x csproj files - prior to this tool Microsoft's official stance was "rewrite them by hand". This goes down like a cup of cold sick at many Enterprise software sho
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ps with hundreds or thousands of project files to update.
I still think the upgrade process needs some more polish/wizards in the VS UI, for junior developers especially, but it's gotten much better. The vast majority of important third party dependencies are all net5 ready now in my experience now, so often just replacing the csproj file and setting target framework to net5 is enough.
If you have a legacy WinForms/GUI app however and want full cross-platform benefits of net5... cost to move to modern UI framework can be significant. CLI apps/web apps are by far the easiest to port to net5.