Published: 09 January 2020
Summary
Heritage .NET applications are critical to many enterprises but need major investment to bring them into line with modern architectural approaches. Application technical professionals should use this guidance framework to modernize their .NET applications.
Included in Full Research
- Prework: Identify Business Goals and Constraints
- Identify Unsupported and Near-End-of-Life Platforms
- Identify Business Needs
- Use Pace Layers to Identify Opportunities
- Platform Infrastructure Support Goals
- Guidance
- Step 1: Evaluate and Classify Application
- Review the State of the Current Application
- Check for the Use of Cloud-Hostile and Cloud-Unfriendly Technologies
- .NET Standard
- Identify .NET Framework Components Not Moving to .NET Core
- Analyzing an Application
- Guidance
- Step 2: Select Modernization Approach
- Choose and Apply Architectural Approaches
- Guidance
- Step 3: Update Your Development Tooling and Practices
- Core Development Tools
- Create or Update CI/CD Pipelines
- Update Your Build and Packaging Systems
- Windows Containers
- aPaaS and fPaaS Offerings
- Guidance
- Step 4: Modernize Your Application
- Revise
- Rearchitect
- Rebuild
- Guidance
- Step 5: Establish Monitoring and Feedback
- Modernization as a One-Off Effort
- Overly Ambitious Modernization Leads to High Cost
- Failure to Retire Applications When Appropriate
- Related Guidance