Updating Project to .net 6

In this lesson, we're going to update the project to .net6

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  • [00:00 - 00:06] When I started working on this project .NET 6 was on its preview version. So I thought of starting it with version 5.

    [00:07 - 00:16] But now that version 6 has been released, I'll show you how we can update our project from version 5 to version 6. Let's start by installing the version 6.

    [00:17 - 00:33] You can open .NET.Microsoft.com/download and since I'm using Mac, I will install X64 version, you can install a 64 version if you have a MacBook with M1 processor. Since I'm using Intel processor, I will choose this.

    [00:34 - 00:43] Please choose the suitable version and install .NET 6. Once we are done installing it, we can look at migrating version 5 to version 6 .

    [00:44 - 00:49] We can follow some of these steps which are applicable for us. We will not cover everything mentioned here.

    [00:50 - 01:01] Select Visual Studio Code here and we have VS Code. We have C# extension installed and lastly, we have installed .NET 6 SDK.

    [01:02 - 01:10] And we can create a global.json file if we want to have different projects that use different versions. And for now, we will not go for this option.

    [01:11 - 01:15] And if you look at this, update the target framework. This one is applicable for us.

    [01:16 - 01:20] So this is what we are going to do. First of all, we can check the SDK versions we have installed.

    [01:21 - 01:38] So let's go back to our project and we can open a terminal and run .NET - info. And I have version 5 and version 6 SDK installed.

    [01:39 - 01:46] I hope you are able to see the version 6 here as well. So what we will do is we will start by going to the API inside the project file .

    [01:47 - 01:56] We will start by changing the target framework from version 5 to version 6. We will also update the dependencies related to the runtime.

    [01:57 - 02:15] And for that, we will change the JWT bearer so I can make it 6.0.4. I will change Microsoft Entity Framework Core Design to same 6.0.4.

    [02:16 - 02:25] We don't have to worry about this Swashbuckle ASP net core and the auto mapper. Now we need to do the exact same thing for the other projects.

    [02:26 - 02:35] So let's go to Entity Project first. Let's close our client project and open the Entity Project and we will open Entity.csproj.

    [02:36 - 02:45] And I will change .NET 5 to .NET 6. And I will change this version to 6.0.4.

    [02:46 - 02:53] And we can cancel it for now. And now let's open the infrastructure.csproj file.

    [02:54 - 03:08] And let's start by changing the target framework from version 5 to version 6. And we will change Entity Framework Core SQLite to 6.0.4.

    [03:09 - 03:13] And everything else can stay the same. And let's close this for now.

    [03:14 - 03:40] And now to confirm that everything else is working as expected, I will shut it, go to the root project and run .NET Re-STOM. Now we can go back to our API project once again and run .NET Watch Run.

    [03:41 - 03:47] We don't see any errors here. And let's open the browser to confirm this.

    [03:48 - 03:54] We can see that our APIs are working as expected. Perfect.

    [03:55 - 04:03] Let me try to add this to the cart and this works. So yeah, everything is working as expected.

    [04:04 - 04:21] It was pretty straightforward to update the project from version 5 to version 6 because it is backward compatible with version 5. In the next lesson, we'll take a look at the new hosting model we get with .NET 6 and we will implement it in our projects as well so that you can see what the new hosting model is.

    [04:22 - 04:29] So I'm talking about the new hosting model here. So let's start implementing it from the next lesson.