#Net5 – Migrating a fully functional Windows Form app to Net 5 in 10 minutes !

TbVolScroll is a super cool project, take a look

Simple utility to enable volume control when your mouse cursor is positioned above the taskbar.
Hold the left ALT key to enable precise volume control (decrease/increase volume by 1%). Standard volume step is 5%. The volume bar will follow the cursor when it’s moved.
By default, if the volume is lower than 10% precise volume control is automatically enabled.

TbVolScroll

Note: As far as I remember, this feature is available in other OS.

And thanks to his author the code of the tool is available in GitHub (see references).

The original project is a .Net Framework 4.7.2 project, so I decided to test how much time it will take to migrate the project to .Net 5. I didn’t perform a deep analysis of the source project, before start. This is my labs migration path

• Create a new Windows Form Net 5 project named [TbVolScrollNet5]
• Copy all the files from the original project, avoiding the .csproj file
• Rebuild !

And it worked ! I mean, I fixed some namespaces, added a missing NuGet package and 10 minutes later it was working. Of course, I submitted a pull request with the migration project, in the meantime I will keep this local just for fun.

And I want to use it ! So now is the time to pack and publish a local version of the tool. I created a local publish profile and defined

• Build in Release | Any CPU
• Deployment as Self-Contained
• Runtime win-x86
• Produce as single file
• Enable ReadyToRun compilation

And that’s it! 150 MB to a fully functional working app

Now back to work, and in my next steps I’ll publish this as a clickonce app so it’s easy to distribute. And the perfect excuse to learn more about .Net 5 !

References

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