Clean up obsolete API reference?

[divega]

We moved our API reference to the .NET site, but the old API reference is still in place at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/api/microsoft.entityframeworkcore.

There is perhaps some value in keeping it in case there are external things pointing to it but on the other hand it does no good if it is stale.

cc @dend.

[dend]

@divega we need to make sure that we set up redirects for it. I will help with that after the holidays.

[mairaw]

Has this ever been done @divega @dend?

[divega]

@mairaw no, as far as I know at least. Not sure how to delete it.

[mairaw]

We need to set up redirects in the backend. I've filed a request for this. Let's see if we can make it happen.

[divega]

@mairaw do you remember what the request number was or can check what happened?

[mairaw]

@divega let me see if I can find. I'm having some trouble finding some of my issues lately.

[mairaw]

Found it! Weird, they marked as completed. I'll reactivate. https://dev.azure.com/mseng/CSI/_workitems/edit/1258920

[divega]

Now links to https://docs.microsoft.com/ef/core/api/microsoft.entityframeworkcore fail with 404, so this was cleaned up. But keeping this open until we figure out if it should redirect to the .NET API browser (see https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/feedback/issues/824).

[mairaw]

Question @divega: was the previous content hosted in this same repo?

[divega]

@mairaw I didn't remember at all, but digging into very old commits I think the answer is yes.

[divega]

@mairaw but also, we produce the conceptual documentation that also targets docs.microsoft.com/ef from https://github.com/aspnet/EntityFramework.Docs, so I think it would be fine to place the redirect for https://docs.microsoft.com/ef/core/api/ there.

[smitpatel]

Redirects are in place and links no longer throw 404.