179. Why Should I Upgrade My .NET Application?

Why should I upgrade my application to the latest .NET version? If I am on the .NET Framework, why should I upgrade to .NET 8? What benefits are there to outweigh the costs? These are the questions we will answer in today's episode of Dev Questions.

[maratnikitin]

Great content, Tim!
I love the Dev Questions section. I watched every video in this playlist, some of them a few times.
Thank you for the high quality versatile content!

[EETechStuff]

Excellent points. And let's not forget stuff like the jaw dropping MS decision to suddenly deprecate (ie, remove completely) charts in .NET Winforms, leaving us in the science and engineering world having to scramble (if we do decide to upgrade from .NET Framework to .NET) to find an open source replacement, and hoping it will last a few years and is secure and actually works, and start from scratch learning how to make it all work in the new software, and then rewriting any charting classes we've developed, and totally re-write the MANY apps using Framework charts, and on and on. Personally, I was hoping .NET's future held some big improvements for controls like charts, but it's just the opposite.

[faisalalhoqani]

Great episode, dear Tim, Thank you and keep it up.

[alexisavls]

Isn't the intro image from the latest Dev Questions episode, 'What Are The Steps To Quickly Debugging An Application?'? I just saw that video and almost clicked away, thinking I was rewatching it. Either way, loving the content!

[yatishbhavsar]

Hi Tim, thanks for such great videos.
I want to migrate from .Net 2.1 to latest, could you please share some blogs etc on this topic

[michaelday]

How timely. I just had to upgrade an old UI because it was on 4.5, and had to upgrade to at least 4.6.2 due to a security issue. The application did not work with TLS 1.2, and the company had taken away 1.0 and 1.1 and certain features stopped working. I know it's not exactly what you are referring to on this video, but the title caught my attention.

[pokepython]

I would like a video about setting up repos in .NET, sharing code between repos or making monorepos etc. Best approaches. :) And thank you for making coding

[kwameansugyamfi]

Hi Tim, I am a desktop developer who's done extensive work with. Net Framework 4x. My challenge with migration to. Net 5+ is the lack of support for report engines. Do you have any advice on what is available out there for such cases? Most of my customers require reporting tools to do their work.

[wenliang]

Hi Tim, I need to upgrade our application from .NET Framework 4.5 to .NET6. I have been using V.S professional 20215. I just installed V.S. 2022 professional and .NET SDK but my first attempt to open my project/solution in Visual Studio 2022 Professional failed. Could you provide some tips/suggestions for me to get it start? or where should I get help for this task? Thank you

[_jimbarton]

Upgraded and spent a day trying to get the build to work again, still isn't 😪

[fqlt]

I am having a lots of troubles upgrading my .net 7 blazor app to .net 8 specially with identity authorization.

[tobymoby]

Hey Tim, i really enjoy your videos. The quality is very very good! I have a little question. I am building a software to configure usb devices and need to choose a user interface technology for my c# application. I have knowledge in forms but want something new. Do you would still go with wpf for desktop or build it with maui or blazor+maui?
This app should run only on windows 11.

Thanks for tipps!

[ionutb]

Any discount on Black Friday for All access?😅

[nasranruwaidi]

When approaching the management, developers need to think like a salesman. They don't care about the technical details. They care about cost savings, manpower, time to market and risk avoidance

[martinbabicek]

Admins are frustrated with need to install unnecessary libraries in elevated prompt. MS obviously thinks that .NET 4.8 is enough for everyone - otherwise higher frameworks would be integrated to win11. There is still no way to make .NET independent app even though there is usually only very few apps with the same framework. If necessary libraries were integrated into code the result would be better.

[lolyasuo]

I agree with what you said Tim, but with the current version release model you gonna get very soon at the same position.

[camrws]

love your videos but i gotta say it… intro is way too long lol

[jonathansaindon]

I miss the videos from 4-5 years ago when it was mostly about code.

[phillismable]

Where is the Tim of old ? Building a Suggestion Site App - Lesson 31 'A YEAR ago Tim'. This is when you went from coding God to someone who just talks a lot, and reiterates a lot. Yes I could stop watching you, so could everybody else and where would yo ube then. But as a hiuge fan I'm hanging around to see if you pull something out of your hat and again show us your magic.