Migration from ASP.NET Core RC2 to RTM

On June 27th .NET Core 1.0 RTM was released which include ASP.NET Core 1.0 and Entity Framework Core 1.0. The links are to the official Microsoft announcement blogs.

Installation

Install instructions can be found at http://dot.net using the Download .NET Core button in the bottom center of the page or use this link to go directly to the install directions. If you are using Visual Studio 2015 then update 3 must be installed before installing .NET Core for Visual Studio which includes the RTM bits plus preview 2 of the related tooling.

After both installers are complete open a command prompt and run the command dotnet –version and verify the version is 1.0.0-preview2-003121.

Global.json

Update the version in the sdk section.

{
  "projects": [ "src", "test" ],
  "sdk": {
    "version": "1.0.0-preview2-003121"
  }
}

Project.json

The following table can be used to find and replace a lot of the changes in this file.

The run time option for server GC was moved.

Before:
"runtimeOptions": {
  "gcServer": true
}

After:
"runtimeOptions": {
  "configProperties": {
    "System.GC.Server": true
  }
}

A new option is now included in the publish options for “Areas/**/Views”.

Before:
"publishOptions": {
  "include": [
    "wwwroot",
    "Views",
    "appsettings.json",
    "web.config"
  ]
}

After:
"publishOptions": {
  "include": [
    "wwwroot",
    "Views",
    "Areas/**/Views",
    "appsettings.json",
    "web.config"
  ]
}

Finally in the scripts section if you are not using NPM and Gulp then the following change should be made. It is my understanding the choice to remove NPM and Gulp by default was to speed up restores.

Before:
"scripts": {
  "prepublish": [ "npm install", "bower install", "gulp clean", "gulp min" ],
  "postpublish": [ "dotnet publish-iis --publish-folder %publish:OutputPath% --framework %publish:FullTargetFramework%" ]
}

After:
"scripts": {
  "prepublish": [ "bower install", "dotnet bundle" ],
  "postpublish": [ "dotnet publish-iis --publish-folder %publish:OutputPath% --framework %publish:FullTargetFramework%" ]
}

Here is the full file for reference with NPM left in.

{
  "userSecretsId": "YourSecretsId",

  "dependencies": {
    "Microsoft.NETCore.App": {
      "version": "1.0.0",
      "type": "platform"
    },
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication.Cookies": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Diagnostics.EntityFrameworkCore": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Identity.EntityFrameworkCore": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Tools": {
      "version": "1.0.0-preview1-final",
      "type": "build"
    },
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.Kestrel": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.StaticFiles": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools": {
      "version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
      "type": "build"
    },
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.EnvironmentVariables": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.Json": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration.UserSecrets": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Logging": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Console": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.Logging.Debug": "1.0.0",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.BrowserLink.Loader": "14.0.0",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Tools": {
      "version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
      "type": "build"
    },
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGenerators.Mvc": {
      "version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
      "type": "build"
    }
  },

  "tools": {
    "BundlerMinifier.Core": "2.0.238",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Razor.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
    "Microsoft.AspNetCore.Server.IISIntegration.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
    "Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
    "Microsoft.Extensions.SecretManager.Tools": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
    "Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Tools": {
      "version": "1.0.0-preview2-final",
      "imports": [
        "portable-net45+win8"
      ]
    }
  },

  "frameworks": {
    "netcoreapp1.0": {
      "imports": [
        "dotnet5.6",
        "portable-net45+win8"
      ]
    }
  },

  "buildOptions": {
    "emitEntryPoint": true,
    "preserveCompilationContext": true
  },

  "runtimeOptions": {
    "configProperties": {
      "System.GC.Server": true
    }
  },

  "publishOptions": {
    "include": [
      "wwwroot",
      "Views",
      "Areas/**/Views",
      "appsettings.json",
      "web.config"
    ]
  },

  "scripts": {
    "prepublish": [ "npm install", "bower install", "gulp clean", "gulp min" ],
    "postpublish": [ "dotnet publish-iis --publish-folder %publish:OutputPath% --framework %publish:FullTargetFramework%" ]
  }
}

Breaking Changes

A list of breaking changes for this release can be found here. The only one I hit was this issue which changes the JSON serializes to use camel case names by default. To restore the previous behavior making the following change in the ConfigureServices function of the Startup class.

Before:
services.AddMvc();

After:
services.AddMvc()
        .AddJsonOptions(options => options.SerializerSettings.ContractResolver = new DefaultContractResolver());

Congratulations

Congratulations to .NET Core teams for hitting RTM! I know there has been some negative things said about the amount of churn in the RC phase of the project, but based on what I feel they made the right choice for the future of the platform. If you don’t already I highly recommend watching the ASP.NET Community Stand-up where you can see a lot of these issues discussed by the team.

In the next few of weeks the team should be releasing a road map of what they are going to be working on next such as SignalR.