.NET Upgrade Assistant (Preview)

The goal of this extension is to assist in upgrading your .NET applications to the latest versions of .NET. After installing the extension, you can right-click in Solution Explorer on the project you want to upgrade, choose “Upgrade” and follow the steps.

See the Upgrade Assistant blog post for more information.

Supported .NET upgrades:

• .NET Framework to .NET 6+ upgrade
• .NET Core to .NET 6+ upgrade
• .NET 5 to .NET 6+ upgrade

Supported project types:

• ASP.NET
• WPF
• WinForms
• Class libraries
• Console

Coming soon:

• Xamarin to .NET MAUI migration
• UWP to WinUI migration
• WCF to WCF Core migration

If you run into any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please report feedback in Visual Studio (see Report a Problem).