Umbraco 13 - Upgrading Old Umbraco 8 App_Plugin to 13
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Vexxuh

8 months ago
Hey there! I appreciate you taking the time to read my post. Right now I am working on upgrading a customer site from Umbraco 8 to 13. In the BackOffice this customer has two custom sections for managing some custom data and preforming a few common/simple tasks related to user management. I am having a hard time trying to upgrade these. For context, since there are a lot of breaking changes and this customer also wants to start using USkinned we are basically rebuilding the entire project in a fresh Umbraco 13 install, then are porting over the old behavior and converting it based on .NET Cores "new" requirements and standards (new is relative to the project of course). The plugins themselves simply do not want to install/run when I add them to the App_Plugins folder. I am having a hell of a time trying to debug, find documentation, and simply work on these plugins. Right now I have the C# file's build actions set to
C# compiler
and they do show LSP indicators in visual studio and are able to access namespaces from my other classes in my code that are reusable. Where would someone recommend starting? I am thinking that it might be worth building my own plugin from scratch as a little demo to see what configuration/directory structure is missing/incompatible with these older projects but can't find any docs related to adding this type of plugin in the umbraco docs. I do see the angular stuff however, we want to try and avoid using that as best we can due to time constraints and the general overhead of learning and adding that to our developer required understanding for a project like this. I appreciate anyone who responds and is able to point me in the right direction! Thank you!