You Might Not Need to Upgrade: The Case for Staying Put

Show Notes Hey everyone, and welcome back to The Modern .NET Show; the premier .NET podcast, focusing entirely on the knowledge, tools, and frameworks that all .NET developers should have in their toolbox. I'm your host Jamie Taylor, bringing you conversations with the brightest minds in the .NET ecosystem.

Today's episode is another one without a guest; it's just me again. This is part two of the series I started at the top of the season, Bridging the Gap, and if you're wondering where part two got to, we had a standard episode in between. That'll keep happening. The series numbers and the season numbers are going to drift apart, and I'll say which part we're on every time so nobody has to do arithmetic..

Anyway, without further ado, let's sit back, open up a terminal, type in `dotnet new podcast` and we'll dive into the core of Modern .NET.

Full Show Notes The full show notes, including links to some of the things we discussed and a full transcription of this episode, can be found at: https://dotnetcore.show/season-9/you-might-not-need-to-upgrade-the-case-for-staying-put/

Useful Links: This series Bridging the Gap: Taking It Upstairs, every episode's business case on one page s09e01 - You Are Not Behind: Why You Are Still On .NET Framework, part 1 of Bridging the Gap Episodes referenced in this one Episode 24 - Migrating from ASP.NET to ASP.NET Core with Iris Classon Episode 45 - Migrating Stack Overflow to .NET Core with Nick Craver Episode 46 - Migrating Umbraco to .NET Core with Bjarke Berg, Umbraco's migration plans, as discussed in 2020 Episode 99 - Copy-Pasting with Iris Classon, Iris' second appearance on the show S08E19 - Simplicity First: Why Complexity Is Not Sophistication with Chris Woodruff Microsoft lifecycle pages, which are the authority on every date in this episode .NET and .NET Core official support policy .NET Framework official support policy ASP.NET official support policy, which carries the ASP.NET Core 2.3 end of support date .NET Framework lifecycle policy .NET and .NET Core lifecycle policy .NET 11 release notes, the source of the .NET 11 support window quoted in the episode Microsoft announcements referenced in the episode .NET STS releases supported for 24 months .NET 8 and .NET 9 will reach End of Support on November 10, 2026 ASP.NET Core on .NET Framework servicing release advisory: ASP.NET Core 2.3, on why ASP.NET Core 2.1 was reshipped as 2.3 ASP.NET Core 2.3 end of support announcement August 2026 cumulative update fo