Aspnet

I spent the last few days migrating our ASP.NET REST services, MVC web applications and Blazor server apps to .NET 6. Overall the process was pretty straightforward. The few issues I went through were easy to solve and well documented. Things got more involved with the EF Core 6 transition, especially with the Npgsql Entity Framework Core Provider. The official ASP.NET Core 5.0 to 6.0 migration guide was my first stop. It offers the perfect entry point, rich with in-depth links. At this stage, I am not interested in switching to the new .NET 6 minimal hosting model (aka Minimal APIs). I think it’s a significant improvement, and we will likely adopt it for new projects, but our production projects aren’t going to be refactored right away. Should minimal APIs also prove to be remarkably performant, we’ll reconsider them1. ...

David Fowler has a very informative gist up on GitHub. It’s titled [Migration to ASP.NET Core. NET6][3] and it’s filled with details, recipes and FAQs on migrating an ASP.NET Core 5 web app to ASP.NET Core 61. The focus is on the new, streamlined hosting model, also known as Minimal APIs2. To be clear, You don’t have to move to the new model. As the FAQ section emphasizes: Do I have to migrate to the new hosting model ...