Updating MVC apps to ASP.NET 7

Last modified: 2022-02-26

Audience

Developers

Duration

3 or 4 days

Description

ASP.NET 7 is replacing the MVC platform from the old .NET Framework 4. It is a major new platform built from .NET Core.

Learn to migrate your old MVC apps from 2010-2019 to the new platform.

Course Outline

ASP.NET Core

Features of .NET core
Differences between .NET Core and .NET Framework
When should an app migrate to .NET core, or stay on .NET Framework
Versions of .NET core
Strategies for migrating app

Migrating MVC to ASP.NET Core

Startup classes
Middleware
Dependency injection
Static files
HttpContext object
Migrating from web.config to appsettings.json

ASP.NET Core considerations

Migrating Web API to ASP.NET Core
Logging with ASP.NET Core
Routing in ASP.NET Core
Route Tables
Route Attributes

Security

Authentication
Authorization
Identity
CORS Support

Controllers and Views

Base Classes
New attributes (Consumes, Produces, ApiController)
Tag Helpers
Razor pages

Data and Models

Entity Framework
Code First
SQL Server
SQL vs NoSql
CosmosDB

Testing using ASP.NET Core

Testing Clases
Attributes

Migrating WCF to gRPC

Demo

.NET Upgrade Assistant tool

Installing the Assistant
Calling the assistant on a project
Steps for converting
Troubleshoothing