Porting Assistant for .NET Visual Studio IDE extension version history - Porting Assistant for .NET

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Porting Assistant for .NET Visual Studio IDE extension version history

The following table describes the released versions of Porting Assistant for .NET Visual Studio IDE extension.

Version Details Release date
1.3.2

  • Adds support for .NET 7.

 November 23, 2022
1.3.1

  • Removes banner that prompts customers to download AWS Toolkit for .NET Refactoring.

 November 18, 2022
1.3.0

  • Removes the AWS profile requirement.

 October 25, 2022
1.2.0

  • Adds support for assessment and porting of VB.NET projects that are Web API, Class Library, or console application type projects.

 July 15, 2022
1.1.10

  • Fixes issue where multiple flashbars appear if short-term credentials are expired.

  • Fixes cascading task cancellations.

  • Fixes issue with duplicate logs.

 June 5, 2022
1.1.9

  • Adds option to allow Porting Assistant for .NET to look for credentials using the default SDK chain.

  • Adds session token field in Add Profile modal to allow for the creation of profiles with short-term credentials.

 April 15, 2022
1.1.8
Bug fix

  • Fixes extension failure when closing and reopening solution in Visual Studio 2022.

 April 13, 2022
1.1.7

  • Adds code behind conversions for WebForms controls.

  • Upgrades to .NET 6 from .NET Core 3.1.

Bug fix

  • Projects with duplicate references will no longer fail to port.

 April 4, 2022

1.1.6

  • Fixes log uploader to update log file only when share is turned on.

 February 24, 2022

1.1.4

  • Adds support for using short-term credentials.

 January 14, 2022

1.1.3

  • Adds support for porting Web Forms applications to .NET Core.

 December 20, 2021

1.1.2

  • Adds support for Visual Studio 2022 and 2019.

  • Adds Visual Studio 2022 support for .NET 6.0 Framework.

 December 1, 2021

1.1.0

  • Adds support for porting WCF, OWIN, and ASP.NET MVC applications to .NET Core.

 October 18, 2021

1.0.5

  • Fixes NPE in assessment and porting.

  • "Port single project" no longer ports the entire solution.

 October 8, 2021

1.0.4

  • Fixes porting hanging after running assessment.

  • Supports Visual Studio versions later than 16.9.

 September 17, 2021

1.0.3

  • Adds memory logging.

  • Fixes log uploader.

  • Adds default upgrade version of NuGet packages in porting recommendation.

  • Syncs metric types with Porting Assistant standalone tools.

  • Adds default porting package version in the porting request.

 August 13, 2021

1.0

 Initial release May 3, 2021