Package version to update project .NET core in visualstudio

Question

My project is using .NET Core version 3.1.

There are packages in version 3.1., 5.0. and 6.0.*.

As I am using the .NET Core 3.1 framework, do I have to use 3.1.* packages?

Example: package Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer

Answer 1

nuget packages have their own version numbers independent of the framework. Most packages support multiple frameworks, so you need to pick a version that supports your framework version (3.1 or netstandard 2.0/2.1)

for Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer you will see the last version to support 3.1 was 5.0.17

note: 3.1 support ends in December, so you should start porting to net 6 soon.