How to update your Azure Functions from version 2 (V2) to version 3 (V3)
Here is a small and quick article about how to perform the update in your C# project that contains the Azure Functions of your application
Initially your .csproj file will look similar to the following code:
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<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp2.1</TargetFramework>
<AzureFunctionsVersion>v2</AzureFunctionsVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.Storage" Version="3.0.4" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Functions" Version="1.0.31" />
</ItemGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<None Update="host.json">
<CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
</None>
<None Update="local.settings.json">
<CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
<CopyToPublishDirectory>Never</CopyToPublishDirectory>
</None>
</ItemGroup>
</Project>
In order to update your functions to version 3 do the following changes:
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<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">
<PropertyGroup>
<TargetFramework>netcoreapp3.1</TargetFramework>
<AzureFunctionsVersion>v3</AzureFunctionsVersion>
</PropertyGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.Storage" Version="3.0.11" />
<PackageReference Include="Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Functions" Version="3.0.11" />
</ItemGroup>
<ItemGroup>
<None Update="host.json">
<CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
</None>
<None Update="local.settings.json">
<CopyToOutputDirectory>PreserveNewest</CopyToOutputDirectory>
<CopyToPublishDirectory>Never</CopyToPublishDirectory>
</None>
</ItemGroup>
</Project>
See how we moved from net.core 2x to 3x and also the change in the AzureFunctionsVersion property. Here you can see the documentation about the different versions of Azure Functions.
Hope this will help some of you folks.