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  The most formidable barrier to migrating legacy ASP.NET MVC applications to .NET 8 is not the syntax changes or the project file format; it is the architectural dependency on   System.Web.dll . Specifically, enterprise applications built between 2010 and 2018 often treat  HttpContext.Current  as a global singleton, accessing request data, session state, and user identity deep within business logic layers, static helper methods, and repositories. When you target .NET 8,  System.Web  disappears. The modern  Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.HttpContext  is designed to be injected via Dependency Injection (DI), not accessed statically. Rewriting hundreds of thousands of lines of code to thread  IHttpContextAccessor  through every method signature is rarely feasible for an initial migration. This post details how to implement the  System.Web Adapters , a library maintained by Microsoft that creates a compatibility layer, allowing you to run l...

  The most daunting compiler error during a "lift-and-shift" migration from .NET Framework 4.x to .NET 8 is almost always related to   System.Web . Specifically, the ubiquity of   System.Web.HttpContext.Current . In the legacy ASP.NET era,  HttpContext.Current  was the "God Object." It allowed any method, no matter how deep in the call stack—static utility classes, logging extensions, business logic—to reach out and grab the Request, Response, Session, or User Identity without passing parameters. In ASP.NET Core, it does not exist. This post details why the architecture changed, how to implement the modern Dependency Injection (DI) solution, and provides a rigorous "shim" strategy for legacy codebases where refactoring every constructor immediately is impossible. The Root Cause: Why it was Removed System.Web.HttpContext.Current  relied heavily on  System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging.CallContext  and was tightly coupled to IIS (Internet Information S...