Microsoft will release previews of .NET 8 monthly starting in February 2023 until the final General Availability (GA) version on Tuesday, November 14, 2023.
- February 21, 2023: Announcing .NET 8 Preview 1
- March 14, 2023: Announcing .NET 8 Preview 2
- April 11, 2023: Announcing .NET 8 Preview 3
- May 16, 2023: Announcing .NET 8 Preview 4
- June 13, 2023: Announcing .NET 8 Preview 5
- July 11, 2023: Announcing .NET 8 Preview 6
- August 8, 2023: Announcing .NET 8 Preview 7
- September, 2023: Announcing .NET 8 Release Candidate 1
- October, 2023: Announcing .NET 8 Release Candidate 2
- November 14, 2023: Announcing .NET 8.0 GA
To use .NET 8 previews with Visual Studio 2022, you must install version 17.8 Preview 1 or later.
After downloading and installing .NET 8.0 SDK, follow the step-by-step instructions in the book and they should work as expected since the project file will automatically reference .NET 8.0 as the target framework.
To upgrade a project in the GitHub repository from .NET 7.0 to .NET 8.0 just requires a target framework change in your project file.
Change this:
<TargetFramework>net7.0</TargetFramework>To this:
<TargetFramework>net8.0</TargetFramework>For projects that reference additional NuGet packages, use the latest NuGet package version, as shown in the rest of this page, instead of the version given in the book. You can search for the correct NuGet package version numbers yourself at the following link: https://www.nuget.org