Migrate ASP.NET Core Web API Project from 3.1 to 5

It is very easy and straightforward to migrate ASP.NET Core Web API Project from 3.1 to 5.

In this tutorial we will be migrating the project that we have previously built in our tutorial Secure ASP.NET Core Web API using JWT Authentication , this project was built using ASP.NET Core Web API 3.1.

Update Visual Studio

First things first; You need to have the latest update of Visual Studio 2019, so the version should be 16.8.x

If you don’t have the updated version, then you can simply select Help -> Check for Updates and from there Visual Studio will handle the rest of update work for you. Follow the installation steps and you should be ready.

You can always install the latest version of Visual Studio 2019 from Microsoft’s Visual Studio Website .

Backup your work

Next, just before you start with the migration, always make sure to take a backup of your latest code, either it was a local backup, cloud backup or committing and pushing your changes to some source control, in anyway, you always have to keep a clean copy from your latest work just…