Migration process from AJAX to Core

[Christophe]

Hi All,

We have been using the UI ASP AJAX product to build up our WebApp during the past 5 years. We would like now to migrate to UI ASP Core. Is there some kind of tool from Telerik that would ease the process ? 

We are aware that will require code editing at some point, but if there was some kind of Analyzer or something to indicate what lib must be replaced / updated / deleted or what telerik object / class should be used instead of the current one to achieve similar behavior etc .... This would be great help.

 

Cheers

 

Chris

[Rumen]

Hi Chris,

The differences in terms of architecture, usage in MVC and AJAX are huge. Therefore, there is no automatic tool that can migrate an existing ASP.NET AJAX project to an ASP.NET MVC one. 

Such an action should be done by entirely re-implementing the application by using the corresponding tools and controls for MVC. My advice is to examine the getting started resources available in the UI for ASP.NET MVC documentation:

• Fundamentals 
• Creating Applications
• Wrappers vs Widgets

Let us know if you have any other questions.

Best regards,
Rumen
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[Christophe]

Hi Rumen,

 

Thanks for your quick reply. Ok, that was a stupid question as it looks like ASP Core requires the MVC architecture. I should have checked that earlier.

Cheers,

 

Chris

[Eyup]

Hello,

We have some pretty neat blogs for describing the migration between different technologies:
- From Web Forms to Core
- From Web Forms to Blazor
- From MVC to Core MVC
- From MVC to Blazor

Now, to summarize, Telerik UI for MVC is suitable for .NET framework versions 4.0, 4.5, 4.6, 4.7 and 4.8.

For .NET Core versions 3, 5 and 6 you will use Telerik UI for Core.

Since Web Forms and MVC are completely different technologies, I am afraid to let you know that any code re-use on the UI part is not possible and the app needs be rewritten anew.

 

Regards,
Eyup
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