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How to upgrade ASP.NET 5 from Beta6 to Beta7

What is the cheat sheet for upgrading from Beta 6 to Beta 7 for ASP.NET 5 vNext?

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Background

  • Starting with beta version 6 ( see previous notes )
  • Install Web Tools 2015 (Beta7)
  • Upgrade to beta7: dnvm upgrade
  • Install x64 if you want: dnvm install 1.0.0-beta7 -arch x64 -r clr
  • Update alias: dnvm alias default 1.0.0-beta7 x64
  • Set it as constant by default dnvm use default -p

Beta 7 changes

Not all changes will apply to your project ...

  • Update global.json from beta6 to beta7
  • Find the project.json files for beta6" and replace with beta7"
  • In project.json, replace Microsoft.Framework.Runtime.Abstractions with Microsoft.Dnx.Runtime.Abstractions
  • In project.json, replace Kestrel with Microsoft.AspNet.Server.Kestrel
  • Replace using Microsoft.Framework.Runtime; on using Microsoft.Dnx.Runtime;
  • Replace configuration.GetConfigurationSection with configuration.GetSection
  • Replace configuration.Get("MyConfigKey") with configuration["MyConfigKey"]
  • In Startup.cs, replace services.AddMvc().Configure<MvcOptions>(options => with services.AddMvc(options =>

Multiple assemblies with equivalent identification error

My unit test projects had this error:

Multiple assemblies with equivalent identity have been imported: '<in-memory assembly>' and '<in-memory assembly>'

This blog suggested moving System.* Links to a section on structure; I found that removing them completely worked as well.

Tagbuilders

Now you cannot use TagBuilder.ToString() to get the HTML, but instead you must use the IHtmlContent that it implements. See TagBuilder InnerHtml in ASP.NET 5 MVC 6

Entity Framework

  • New migration syntax: dnx ef migrations add MyMigration and dnx ef database update

Other

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Doing the Proposed "Replace Microsoft.Framework.Runtime.Abstractions with Microsoft.Dnx.Runtime.Abstractions"

I had an error: "Several assemblies with an equivalent identifier were imported: '' and ''"

when I tried to update.

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