.NET Framework 4.8 is coming to App Service

Question

Hi there,

Do you think when the azure app service platform is upgraded to Framework 4.8 in the next few weeks, the applications created using .NET Core 2.1 will be affected ? Even though the application I am talking about is built using .NET Core 2.1, the configuration of app service is only pointing to 4.7 till now, because there is no option for me to select .NET Core.

This implies to me that the Azure app service platform is still using .NET Framework to run its services. In such case, I may not be able to test my .NET core application on Azure app service pointing to .NET Framework 4.8 until the new framework is published in Azure.

Please clarify.

Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks for asking question! The .NET Framework upgrade won’t have any effect on .NET Core apps. Due to how the .NET Framework works, there is always a version of .NET Framework 4.x installed on the underlying Windows VMs, regardless of what language or framework and individual app is written in.