For one our Mumbai Clients we were migrating a ASP.NET MVC core 1 project on VS 2015 to ASP.NET MVC Core 2 on VS 2017.
After migration we were hitting “Unload to load DLL” error and the source of error was kestrel. Once we changed the project properties to X64 it started working.
I would suggest to follow the below road map for migrating ASP.NET MVC core 1 to 2.
- Install VS 2017 and ensure you have .NET core 2.0.0 sdk in your machine.
- Use dotnet migrate and migrate the csproj file. You do not need to migrate the solution.
- Use dotnet restore to ensure that the project restores all .NET core files.
- Open the visual studio solution and probably you will need to add the Web project manually. So use add existing and add it.
- Change project properties to 64 bit compilation.
- Compile the full project check if there are any compilation errors.
- You would also need to do API changes there are not too many. But for our project we needed to fix keyLength and KeyValue fix it.
- Kestrel now needs a rewind for request so create a middle ware for it to rewind the request.
Finally do not forget to Test test and test before going live.
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