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Modernizing legacy apps has become the theme towards the end of this year or also known as "Lift and Shift". This means taking the monolithic applications built with blood, sweat, and tears and now move them to the cloud. Nerd Dinner (https://nerddinner.codeplex.com/) is an MVC application written back in 2010, the last edit was ~Sept 6, 2013 to the mvc4 branch. I grabbed the mvc branch and copied it over to https://github.com/spboyer/nerddinner-mvc4 and fired it up in Visual Studio 2017. The plan: Migrate the LocalDB to SQL Server in Azure Using the Docker tools in Visual Studio 2017, add the Docker files Publish Docker Images to Azure Container Registry (ACR) Push the new...

I'm going to work for Microsoft. What's My Job? I will be working on building out content for docs.microsoft.com, specifically ASP.NET Core and probably other things... Disney For the last 4 years I have had the opportunity to work with some very talented people building great products. Most notably I was a part of the Disney Cruise Line Navigator mobile project where I served as the lead architect and developed the mobile services to support the mobile applications (iOS, Android) and recently the complete revamp of DisneyCruiseLine.com bringing in new architecture, technology stacks and process change to teams. I will miss the people I worked with day to day and being able to be in the...

The default "ASP.NET 5 Preview Starter Web" template has everything you need out of the gate to get started on your next ASP.NET 5 project. On top of the responsive design, which has a new carousel control, it is also touch ready using hammer.js and is using grunt as the task runner. Another popular task runner is gulp.js, and in the next release there will be a default template provided. However, in the meantime as a part of the yeoman generator project I wanted to not only provide an equivalent for the grunt template, but also one that could be built upon. gruntfile.js First let's take a quick look at the grunt file module.exports...

Updated - 1.30.2014 After looking at the kpm pack or publishing step of this solution, there is an undesired affect. All of the folders in the root, now that this is the folder we are working in, will be published to the destination folders. Being approot & wwwroot (yes this is still created), this includes the bowercomponents, nodeemodules, your API code etc. Although IIS will keep you from browsing to the *.cs and other extensions for security sake, it is still not a clean solution. I have updated the dev branch of the git repository where wwwroot is put back in, and the gulpfile.js task called optimize now will publish the necessary files to this folder on...

This is a quick walkthrough on using ASP.NET 5 to build a Web API layer using MongoDB. The overall concept is not too dissimilar from previous examples you may have seen using X type of database, however there are some areas covered that are either new in MVC 6 that you may find you didn't know are there. Topics Covered ConfigurationModel config.json Environment Variables OptionsModel Dependency Injection (IServiceCollection) Forcing JSON or Removing XML Formatter, Content Negotiation MongoDB Installation (OSX & Windows) mongocsharpdriver (nuget package) Testing endpoints w/ Postman or Fiddler Project Creation Depending on your environment (Windows or OS X) or preference you have a choice on how you can create the ASP.NET project. Visual Studio 2015...