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Adopting .NET 5

You're reading from   Adopting .NET 5 Understand modern architectures, migration best practices, and the new features in .NET 5

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560567
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hammad Arif Hammad Arif
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Features and Capabilities
2. Chapter 1: Introducing .NET 5 Features and Capabilities FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: What's New in C# 9? 4. Section 2: Design and Architecture
5. Chapter 3: Design and Architectural Patterns 6. Chapter 4: Containerized Microservices Architecture 7. Section 3: Migration
8. Chapter 5: Upgrading Existing .NET Apps to .NET 5 9. Chapter 6: Upgrading On-Premises Applications to the Cloud with .NET 5 10. Section 4: Bonus
11. Chapter 7: Integrating Machine Learning in .NET 5 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 5: Upgrading Existing .NET Apps to .NET 5

Upgrading an app to its latest platform version, just for the sake of upgrading, is usually not a fun exercise, especially if there is no new and exciting feature to be added. Fortunately, Microsoft has provided solid inter-compatibility between libraries developed for earlier versions of .NET and .NET 5 to make the migration process much smoother. The cherry on top is the underlying performance enhancement that will make the existing code run faster without any significant transformation by the app developer.

There are some technologies that Microsoft has decided not to port to the .NET 5 platform, such as Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Server, Windows Workflow, and ASP.NET web forms. We will discuss the options to replace these technologies where it is feasible to do so.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:

  • Technical requirements for upgrading to .NET 5
  • Choosing the migration approach...
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