Getting Started With .NET 6.

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Introduction
In this article, I am going to explain what’s new in .NET 6.0, what .NET Core is, .Net Core
features and benefits, .Net Core Versions, why we use .Net Core. The latest version of .Net Core
is .NET 6.0 and it was released on November 8, 2021.

Read my previous articles, using the below links,

 How To Install Visual Studio 2022

 Getting Started With Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition
What’s New in .NET 6.0?
Microsoft was released .NET 6.0 on November 8, 2021. Visual studio
2022 version 17.0 required for develop .Net 6.0 console application. Visual Studio 2022
support .NET 6.0.

.NET 6.0 is a long-term support release; it will be supported for three years. Microsoft
recommends developers start to migrate their applications to this new version, the upgrade
process is fairly simple from both .NET Core 3.1 and .NET 5.
This release marks the first time that .NET will be supported on macOS Apple Silicon. It will be
supported on Windows Arm64.

New features in .NET 6

 Hot Reload, which allows code changes to be viewed without needing to restart the app.
 Open Telemetry and dotnet monitor support.
 Improvements of Visual Basic in the Visual Studio experience and Windows from project
experience.
 The ability to render Blazor components from JavaScript.
 WebAssembly AOT compilation for Blazor WebAssembly apps.
 HTTP/3 support
 Support for symbolic links in Fie IO
 Support for OpenSSL, the ChaCha20Poly1305 encryption scheme, and runtime defense-
in-depth mitigations
 Source generators and analyzers
 Performance is greatly improved across the board.
 C# 10 offers language improvements, F# 6 adds new features.
To get more detailed about .NET 6.0 Click here.
Support

.Net 6.0 is a long-term Support (LTS) that will be supported for three years. It is supported on
multiple operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS/tvOS) including macOS
Apple Silicon, and Windows Arm64.

.NET 6 is supported with Visual Studio 2022 and Visual Studio 2022 for Mac. It is not supported
in Visual Studio 2019

Azure App Service

Azure functions now support running serverless function in .NET 6.0. Azure Functions 4.0
supports .NET 6.0, Node.js 14, Python 3.7-3.9, Java 8 & 11, powerShell 7.0.

Azure static web apps now support full-stack .NET 6.0 applications with Blazor WebAssembly
frontends and Azure Function APIs.

Unified and extended platform

.NET 6.0 delivers a unified platform, for browser, cloud, desktop, IoT, and mobile applications.

One of the most exciting is .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI). It is a cross platform
framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML. Using .NET MAUI
you can develop applications that can run on Android, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and windows.
What is .NET Core?
.NET Core is a new version of .Net framework, developed by Microsoft. It is an open-source
framework for developing windows, web applications, services, and mobile applications and it
can be run on Windows, Mac, or Linux. .Net Core application can run on both .NET CORE and
traditional .NET Framework (.NET framework 4.x). It is completely rewritten from scratch and it
was initially launched as .Net 5 but then it was renamed to .NET CORE 1.0.

In simple words, .Net Core is a Cross platform, High-performance, unified, fast, lightweight,
Open-source framework for building modern, Mobile, web, windows applications and services.

.NET Core Versions

History of .NET Core Versions
The below table shows the details of .Net Core Versions.

Version   Release Date   Development/Editor Tool   Support  

Visual Studio 2015 updated version
.Net Core 1.0   Jun-27-2016   1.0  
3  
.Net Core 1.1   Nov-18-2016   Visual Studio 2015,2017   1.0,1.1  
.Net Core 2.0   Aug-14-2017   Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3   1.0,1.1,2.0  
.Net Core 2.1 Long Term Support   May-30-2018   Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7   1.0,1.1,2.0,2
.Net Core 2.2   Dec-04-2018   Visual Studio 2017 Version15.9   1.0,1.1,2.0,2
Visual Studio 2019  
.Net Core 3.0   Sep-23-2019   1.0,1.1,2.0,2
Version 16.3  
.Net Core 3.1 (3 yr Long-term Visual Studio 2019   1.0,1.1,2.0,2
Dec-03-2019  
support)   Version 16.4   3.1  
Visual Studio 2019   1.0,1.1,2.0,2
.NET 5.0   Nov-10-2020  
Version 16.8   3.1,5.0  
Visual Studio 2022  
.NET 6.0 1 (3 yr Long-term support)  Nov-08-2021   6.0  
Version 17.0  
.NET 7.0   2022-11(projected)    -
.NET 8.0   2023-11(projected)    -
Note
Asp.Net Core and .Net Core Both are different, just like Asp.Net and .Net Framework.
Why Use .Net Core?
 Cross platform - It can run on Windows, Linux and Mac.
 Unified - It offers a single unified component like .NET Standard library for all platforms
with the same code, same languages, and same tools.
 Better performance - .Net core does not depend on system.web.dll for communication
between Browser-server. In .Net core everything is packages which we need for our
application. Packages reduce the request pipeline and improve the application
performance.
 Lightweight - It is a lightweight framework. It allows developers to deploy libraries and
components that are needed in a set of packages.
 Dependency Injection - Dependency Injection is in-built in .Net Core.
 Hosting - .Net Core application can be hosted on multiple Web server such as IIS, Apache,
Docker, etc. It is not dependent on IIS.
 Open Source - It is a fully open-source framework. That means, it is free of cost and its
source code is available.
 Testability - Unit testing is very easy in .Net core application.
 Side-by-side App Versioning - .Net Core runs on .NET Core, which supports
simultaneously running in multiple versions of applications.
Connect To Visual Studio 2022 Community Edition and
Create Your First Project
Step 1

First, install Visual Studio 2022 in your system.

Step 2

Go to all programs in your systems, we can see Visual Studio 2022 current and Visual Studio
Installer.
Step 3

Double-click on Visual Studio 2022 Current and it will open. It looks like the below screenshot.
Opening it the first time it will take few time.

Creating Your First Project

Click on Create a new Project to create a new project.
You can see various project types there. Choose “Console Application” project type for now.

Select console Application and click Next.

Give a valid name to your project and select a path for it. Then click Next button.
Now, choose framework .NET 6.0.Then click the create button.

The Console application project structure is shown below,

Now, build and run the application.

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Conclusion
In this article, we explained the basics of .NET 6.0 and what’s new in .NET 6.0.

What Is New In .NET 6.0

.NET 6 is the latest version of .NET that was released in Nov 2021. Not only is .NET
6 a much improved version of the framework compared to its predecessors, but it
also introduces some of the coolest features we’ve seen in some of the most popular
platforms and languages. This article talks about the latest updates and new features
introduced in in .NET 6.0.

.NET 6 – Just Call Me .NET

Prior to .NET 6, there were two separate products of .NET, .NET Framework
and .NET Core. .NET Framework was the original .NET that wasn’t open
sourced. .NET Core was the open source version of .NET that was rewritten from
scratch and works on all platforms, Windows, Linux, and Mac.

With .NET 6.0 and beyond, there will just be one version of .NET and it's just .NET.

.NET 6 is a true unified development platform that allows developers to build

applications for cloud, web, desktop, mobile, gaming, IoT and AI. All these sub
platforms share common base class libraries, APIs and underlying infrastructure
including language and compilers.

.NET 6 is supported by Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and CLI tools.

.NET 6 Is The Fastest .NET So Far

.NET 6 is the fastest version of .NET.
.NET 6 is one of the fastest if not the fastest software platform among them all. Here
is a very detailed blog on performance.
Languages - C# 10 and F# 6
C# 10 and F# 6 are the latest versions of C# and F# that ships with .NET 6.

C# 10 offers various many improvements in this release but the key focus has been
on simplicity. Some of the key improvements in C# 10 are global using directive,
record structs, file scoped namespace, constant interpolated strings, lambda
improvements, and null parameter checking. Here is a detailed article on these
features:

 C# 10 Features
Hot Reload
Hot Reload is one of the coolest features added to .NET that allows developers to
modify the source code while it is running and visualize these changes in real-time
without the need to restart the application. Hot Reload works in both Visual Studio
and CLI.

This is clearly a winner and improves developers' productivity. Here is a detailed

article on Hot Reload,

 Hot Reload For .Net Developers

Blazor Updates
.NET 6 version of Blazor offers a full-fledged production-ready product. Blazor is a
front-end web framework to build client side web applications that run in web
browsers. Blazor uses HTML, CSS, and C# to build web pages.

Blazor supports two hosting models, Blazor Server and Blazor WebAssembly. Blazor
Server model executes code on the server similar to ASP.NET and passes the
HTML to the browser. In the case of Blazor WebAssembly, C# code is executed in
the browser using WebAssembly.

Visual Studio 2022 ships with both types of Blazor project templates.
ASP.NET Core 6.0
ASP.NET Core 6.0 offers updates and improvements in several areas such as
Minimal API, SignalR, Razor Compiler, ASP.NET Performance and API
improvements, and Blazor. Here is a detailed blog on this topic.
.NET MAUI
.NET MAUI, short for .NET Multi-platform App UI is one of the newest features
of .NET. It is the next avatar of Xamarin and multi-UI platform. .NET MAUI allows
you to write code in a single project that delivers a modern client app experience
across desktop and mobile operating systems. .NET MAUI is not production ready
yet but is expected to be released soon.

Azure App Service

Azure Functions now supports running serverless functions in .NET 6.

Azure Static Web Apps now supports full-stack .NET 6 applications with Blazor
WebAssembly frontends and Azure Function APIs.

Cloud diagnostics have been improved with OpenTelemetry and dotnet monitor,
which is now supported in production and available with Azure App Service.

Long-term Support
.NET 6 will be supported for three years as the latest long term support (LTS)
release.

Other Key .NET Updates

Here are some other key updates in .NET 6, from the blog,
 JSON APIs are more capable and have higher performance with a source
generator for the serializer.
 Minimal APIs introduced in ASP.NET Core to simplify the getting started
experience and improve the performance of HTTP services.
 Single-page apps built with ASP.NET Core now use a more flexible pattern that
can be used with Angular, React, and other popular frontend JavaScript
frameworks.
 HTTP/3 has been added so that ASP.NET Core, HttpClient, and gRPC can all
interact with HTTP/3 clients and servers.
 File IO now has support for symbolic links and has greatly improved
performance with a re-written-from-scratch FileStream.
 Security has been improved with support for OpenSSL 3, the
ChaCha20Poly1305 encryption scheme, and runtime defense-in-depth
mitigations.
 Single-file apps (extraction-free) can be published for Linux, macOS, and
Windows (previously only Linux).
 IL trimming is now more capable and effective, with new warnings and
analyzers to ensure correct final results.
 Source generators and analyzers have been added that help you produce
better, safer, and higher performance code.
  Source build enables organizations like Red Hat to build .NET from source and
offer their own builds to their users.
 .NET 6 provides better support for containers that makes .NET 6 apps packing,
deployment, and execution much easier and resource friendly.
 Improvements in Windows Forms.
.NET 6 Features by Scott Hunter
Watch this keynote video of C# Corner’s .NET Conference 2022 by Scott Hunter, VP
Director Program Management at Microsoft.

How Can I Get Started With .NET 6?

The simplest way to get started with .NET 6.0 is to download Visual Studio 2022 that
ships with .NET 6 and several .NET 6 based project templates including Blazor
Server and Blazor WebAssembly.

References

Here is a detailed blog on these features:

 Announcing .NET 6 - The Fastest .NET Yet - .NET Blog (microsoft.com)

 .NET
 .NET 6.0
 What Is New In .NET 6.0

Next Recommended ReadingHow To Migrate From .NET Core 3.1 To .NET 6.0

How To Migrate From .NET Core 3.1 To .NET

6.0

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Introduction
.Net 6 is an LTS (Long Tern Support) Version. It will be supported for three years. It is the latest
long-term support release. The previous version, .Net Core 3.1 support will be finalized in
December 2022, and support for .Net 5 will be ended May 2022. This article describes how to
upgrade the solution from .Net Core 3.1 to .NET 6.0 with an example of Console application
and .Net Core 3.1 class library project. Upgrading console applications and class library project is
almost similar. However, there is some difference between Upgrading ASP.NET Core Web app.

Prerequisites
 Visual Studio 2022
Step 1 - Upgrade the Target Framework
Right-click on the project then go to properties and change the target.
Then select the target framework to .NET 6.0 as depicted below and save it.
Alternatively from project.csproj file you can change the target Framework from netcore3.1 to net
6.0 as shown below.

<PropertyGroup>
<OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
<TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
</PropertyGroup>
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Step 2 - Updating Package references

Update Package references if there are any. Go to Project.csproj file and upgrade packages as
shown below.
For an instance upgrade the package Microsoft.AspNetCore.JsonPatch and
Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools and so on from version 3.1.6 to 6.0.0 as illustrated below.

<ItemGroup>
- <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.JsonPatch"
Version="3.1.6" />
- <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools"
Version="3.1.6" />
- <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Abstractions"
Version="3.1.6" />
- <PackageReference Include="System.Net.Http.Json" Version="3.2.1" />
+ <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.JsonPatch"
Version="6.0.0" />
+ <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools"
Version="6.0.0" />
+ <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Extensions.Caching.Abstractions"
Version="6.0.0" />
+ <PackageReference Include="System.Net.Http.Json" Version="6.0.0" />
</ItemGroup>
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Step 3 - Delete obj and bin folder

You may need to delete the existing bin and obj folder. Go to the respective project directory and
delete those folders. Additionally, you can delete the NuGet cache by running the below
command.

dotnet nuget locals --clear all

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Step 4 - Build the solution

Then build the solution and see whether there are errors or your app is built successfully. If there
are errors based on an error message correct the code and rebuild the solution. On successful
build of the application, your app is upgraded to the .NET 6.0.

The above three steps are required to follow to upgrade the class library and console application
to migrate from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 6.0.

On the other hand, to update the Asp.NET Core 3.1 and Blazor application you need to follow
more steps in addition to the above three.

Following are some changes you need to consider for upgrading ASP.NET Core 3.1 web
application to .NET6

 Minimal hosting and statup.cs file changes

Note that minimal hosting unifies the Startup.cs and Program.cs to a single Program.cs file.
Moreover, the ConfigureServices and Configure are no longer used in .NET6.0.
 Model Binding
Datetime values are model bound as UTC timezone. For applications build on ASP .NET
Core 5 and later, model binding binds the DateTime as UTC timezone whereas, in
applications built using ASP.NET Core 3.1 and earlier, Datetime values were model bound
as local time and the timezone was determined by the server.
 Docker Image
If your app uses docker then you need to pull a Docker image that consists of ASP.NET
Core 6.0 runtime as well. The below command can be used for that.
docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/aspnet:6.0
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You can check the details on the below document.
Summary
In this article, we have learned how to upgrade the project from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 6.0 with
an example of a console application. This article will be useful while migrating your application
from .NET Core 3.1 to .NET 6.0 without encountering any issues. Best of luck to migrate your
application before the end of support.