Updating Old .NET Framework Apps: Tips + Tricks to Help Make You More Prepared

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Shows a concrete migration path: use .NET Upgrade Assistant (both CLI and Visual Studio extension) plus Roslyn analyzers to convert a .NET Framework 4.5 WinForms app and its class library into a net7-windows app and a .NET Standard 2.0 library, and to move a Newtonsoft.Json project to .NET 6. The demo upgrades a 224‑file repo where only 224 files, 12 upgraded need changes, runs the converted matching‑game successfully, and notes support windows: net6 LTS = 3 years, net7 = 18 months.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 8:56What does this actually mean?
3. 16:09Simplified framework names in .NET 7
4. 19:04What will Microsoft libraries target?
5. 20:29What should you target?
6. 22:39Typical workflow
7. 28:55Rewrite or reuse?

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