Migrate from .net standard to .net 6/8 using the upgrade tool

Question

I tried upgrading a .NET standard project to a .NET 6 or 8 project using this upgrade assistant tool:

https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/upgrade-assistant/tutorial/install-upgrade-assistant

I ran the tool as the steps describe (installing it, using upgrade-assistant analyze with the project csproj path and then upgrade-assistant upgrade with the path), but after it was done, the project still remains with a target framework of .net standard 2.0.

Is there something else needs to be done in order to upgrade the framework?

Answer 1

I eventually simply edited the project file directly. To convert it to .net 6 or 8 all you need to do is change the <TargetFramework> to be like this:

<TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>

 or like this:

<TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>

It's a 3 seconds work so no need for any tools

Answer 2

.NET standard works parallelly. That means you would have to update to .NET standard 2.1 if you need it for other old framework projects. Otherwise create new libraries in .NET 6 and migrate your code. According to microsoft: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/platform/dotnet-standard, .NET 6 supports .NET Standard 2.1. Future versions of .NET will also support .NET Standard 2.1 and earlier versions.