Episode

Introduction to the Upgrade Assistant Visual Studio Extension [7 of 18] Migrating from ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core

with Mike Rousos

In this video, Mike introduces the Upgrade Assistant Visual Studio extension tool that allows incrementally migrating a project to a newer .NET target. The Upgrade Assistant command line tool is recommended for upgrading simple class libraries, console apps, Xamarin, and Windows desktop applications. The Visual Studio extension demonstrated in this video is recommended for upgrading ASP.NET projects and large class libraries. The latest version of the VS extension is available here.

Chapters

  • 00:00 - Intro
  • 01:30 - Incremental ASP.NET migration
  • 04:20 - Visual Studio extension overview
  • 04:40 - System.Web.Adapters overview
  • 05:38 - Installing the Visual Studio extension
  • 07:40 - Running the Visual Studio extension

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.NET
ASP.NET
ASP.NET Core
ASP.NET