Section 3: Migration

This section provides guidance on upgrading existing .NET applications to the .NET 5 platform. Whether you have been developing on-premises applications and wish to migrate them to the cloud or simply want to use the latest tools and libraries for your on-premises applications, this developer-focused section discusses the scenarios in which migrating to .NET 5 makes sense, and then provides examples with hands-on exercises to upgrade a legacy application from .NET Framework 4.x to .NET 5.

It then talks about the advantages of hosting the applications on the cloud and leveraging cloud services such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Web Apps, Azure Functions, and Azure Container Instances. If you are new to the .NET Core, you will also learn about using platform-provided libraries for dependency injection and configuration management.

This section comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 5, Upgrading Existing .NET Apps to .NET 5
• Chapter 6, Upgrading...