Application Maintenance: How Latest and Legacy Systems Rely!

For any enterprise, maintenance and support of their components in a system is very important. For effective use of their resources, apart from skills, it is also important to maintain the applications in proper condition. This article will focus on app maint and how legacy systems rely on the tool. The primary step in maintenance involves the process of modification or upgrading of the software support package for all applications right after delivery to client. Based on the modification, it is done as per client’s needs and post feedback, all updates are sent.

Application Maintenance and Support

Application maintenance is analogous to medical checkups and is required for proper health and function of the application in the system. Application maintenance is carried out with client’s requirements in mind. Application maintenance is classified under four categories, where in the first category is only for emergencies and urgent support. Secondly, application maintenance is carried out for errors that are rectified post-delivery. Thirdly, there is corrective maintenance for application maintenance of defective software. Fourth and last, there is an adaptive maintenance wherein the maintenance is sent in the form of support packages that are updated for the system for complying with new restrictions.

Legacy Systems

Most of the application maint techniques are employed for support and maint. of legacy systems and technology. These legacy systems are applications, programs, and other technologies that are now out-dated. These out-dated systems are termed so as they need help for rectification. Legacy systems aid in reducing cost factors ensuring that the most cost-effective approach is taken. A single system is enough to establish or continue as a legacy system, if required other systems can be pooled to form a legacy system.

Need for Application Maintenance on Legacy System

As legacy systems are now globally available and are expanding at a high rate in a world, that is technology driven, it is important to maintain and support these legacy Systems. Application support of legacy systems also includes the real-time check as well as rectifies any potential errors for seamless use of software applications after delivery. Even though systems are outdated, many organizations around the world resort to legacy systems for application maintenance.  As applications are based on a single client, there is always a possibility of defective software in the applications for the client and is henceforth recommended to follow app maint on legacy systems.

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SharePoint and Lego!

SharePoint is often compared with Lego. The SharePoint site is the LEGO building board and functionalities are Lego blocks within SharePoint.  Basic similarity is that SharePoint is like a huge box of Lego from the local toy store. Lego blocks, come in all colors, shapes and sizes –  we can build many different structures from it, we can build trains, ships, houses, etc. on the basis of our imagination. When you get those huge sets, there’s no picture of what it’s going to build, as that’s totally up to you. If you’re careful, creative, and plan well, you can build a castle, an airplane, or even a city.

Likewise, SharePoint is a platform of Blocks. The SP site has all the features and is designed to the needs and desires of the organization. It is a single space for content management of data for different companies. Microsoft SP is a single ‘sharing-point’ for sharing data among various users.

Like Legos, in SharePoint most valuable characteristic is in its ability to make IT architecture in businesses more interoperable. Each block has standard bumps and connectors allowing it to connect to other blocks. In SP,  standards-based interfaces are the small bumps that make compatibility possible and connect software to each other.

Companies can design, create sites and give permissions to people depending on business requirements. It is a product by which we can build niche things like Content Management System (CMS), Document Management System (DMS), Intranet, Extranet Portals and much more based on our requirements.

If it then turns out that there should be at functionality, then there can be again a ‘block’ may be added. In addition to all the capabilities of SharePoint itself, the platform can also be linked with other applications so the possibilities are extended even further.

Announcing the general availability of SP 2016 and the focus of SharePoint’s road map over the next 12 to 18 months, Jeff Teper identified the four areas from which we will be able to draw our Lego bricks:

• Simple and powerful file sharing and collaboration on any device.
• The mobile and intelligent intranet, with modern team sites, publishing and business applications on your desktop and in your pocket.
• An open and connected platform that evolves SharePoint extensibility to embrace modern Web development.
• Investments in security, privacy and compliance across Office 365.
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Application Support and Maintenance (ASM )Trends

Application Support and Maintenance remains one of the biggest areas of concern for IT organizations of all sizes. Bulk of the yearly budgets of these companies goes into ASM (Application Support and Maintenance). The pace at which new applications have been developed along with the need to support the existing ones has made app prioritization much complex. Additionally, most of the existing ASM systems fall short of being proactive and solve issues as and when they come up individually rather than predicting them in advance.

Cutting down the cost of the ASM processes without having to sacrifice on the security, reliability and agility of application management remains a huge challenge even today. Emerging technologies such as big data, mobility and cloud are giving a hard time to IT which is tasked with integrating all these technologies seamlessly. As the companies strive to incorporate latest technologies into their existing infrastructure, many difficulties arise, most of which come in the form of increased investments. Companies are now waking up to the changing landscape where micro applications developed with the help of short development cycles are becoming more significant than large legacy applications.

Companies are now increasingly distinguishing between the applications which consummate the basic corporate functions and which assist the companies in tapping the new technologies. Companies are also trying to switch to shorter development cycles that would help them remain innovative and in sync with the market trends. The yesteryear’s trend of several years of wait between successive software releases hurt the company’s progress.

Outsourcing ASM duties to competent enterprises based on their portfolio is increasingly becoming a preferred choice for IT organizations. This significantly reduces the load on company’s indigenous infrastructure and takes away the need to completely overhaul it in order to bring it in line with the daily changing requirements of applications. The costs involved in outsourcing ASM and ensuring a regulated maintenance cycle far lowers the cost of completely revamping your existing platform to fit in the current business model or to meet up with the needs of the client. It gives the companies enough time to evaluate the position of their legacy software and how it would look in their future plans for business.

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How to Choose the Right DevOps Tools

The term DevOps stands for development and operations.  DevOps is a movement that focuses on collaboration between developers and operations, empathy for the customer, and infrastructure automation. In traditional models, developers write code and then hand it to operations to deploy and run in a production environment. This often leads to a lack of ownership between the two teams, as well as a slower pace of development, because agility clashes with risk management. In contrast, with a DevOps model, the two teams work together at each stage of software delivery toward common, customer-facing goals. Developers take ownership of their code, from code through production, and operations teams build tooling and processes that help developers leverage automation to build, test, and ship code faster and more reliably.

By breaking through walls in culture and processes, development happens more efficiently. And with the customer experience in mind from beginning to end, a DevOps approach ultimately results in a better product and happier, more empowered teams while delivering more value to customers and the business.

Following is the checklist to keep in mind while choosing the right DevOps tools.

Step 1: Collaboration

The waterfall approach of planning out all the work and every single dependency for a release runs counter to DevOps. Instead, with an agile approach, you can reduce risk and improve visibility by building and testing software in smaller chunks and iterating on customer feedback. That’s why many teams, including our own, plan and release in sprints of around two to four weeks.

As your team is sharing ideas and planning at the start of each sprint, take into account feedback from the previous sprint’s retrospective so the team and your services are continuously improving. Tools can help you centralize learnings and ideas into a plan. To kick off the brainstorming process, you can identify your target personas, and map customer research data, feature requests, and bug reports to each of them. We like to use physical or digital sticky notes during this process to make it easier to group together common themes and construct user stories for the backlog. By mapping user stories back to specific personas, we can place more of an emphasis on the customer value delivered. After the ideation phase, we organize and prioritize the tasks within a tool that tracks project burndown and daily sprint progress.

Top tools we can use : Active Collab, Pivotal Tracker, VersionOne, Jira, Trello, StoriesOnBoard

Step 2: Use tools to capture every request

No changes should be implemented outside the DevOps process. All types of requests for any changes in the software or any new additions to the software should be captured by the DevOps. It provides automation to the system to accept requests for change that may inflow from both the sides either the business or the DevOps team. For instance, making changes to the software to facilitate a request to improve the access to the database.

Step 3: Usage of Agile Kanban project management

A primary advantage that Kanban has is that it encourages teams to focus on improving flow in the system.  As teams adopt Kanban, they become good at continuously delivering work they have completed.  Thus, Kanban facilitates doing incremental product releases with small chunks of new functionality or defect fixes.  This feature of Kanban makes it very suited to DevOps’ continuous delivery and deployment requirements.

The other big advantage of Kanban is how it enables you to visualize your entire value-stream and ensure stable flow. Thus, it helps you combine the workflows of different functions and activities right from Dev to Integration/ Build, Test, Deployment and beyond that to application monitoring. Initially, it will help your Dev and Ops people to work in a collaborative manner. Over a period of time, you can evolve into a single team and single workflow that includes all of Dev and Ops activities. Kanban provides you visibility to this entire process – and transformation to a DevOps culture.

Step 4: Usage of tools to log metrics

One should always opt for the tools that help in understanding the productivity of the DevOps processes both in automated and in manual processes. From this one can determine if it is working in the favor or not. First decide which metrics are more relevant to the DevOps processes, like speed to effective action vs. errors occurred. Secondly, use an automated process to rectify issues without the help of a human controller. For instance, dealing with problems related to scaling of software automatically on digital cloud podium.

Step 5: Implementation

Automated testing is just a minor part of automated testing. Test automation is an ability to implement code and data and the solution thus obtained to ensure its high quality. A continuous series of test is must do with DevOps.

Step 6: Acceptance tests

It is necessary to perform Acceptance tests as they help in a deployment of each part thereby acceptance of the infrastructure. The testing process should also define the degree of acceptance tests that are to be a part of apps, data and test suite. A good amount of time must be spent in testing and retesting of DevOps and define acceptance tests to ensure that the tests are in sync with the criteria selected. As applications evolve over time, new instructions are fed and again the testing should be done.

Automated Testing

Automated testing pays off over time by speeding up your development and testing cycles in the long run. And in a DevOps environment, it’s important for another reason: awareness.

To prepare for and support what Development builds, it’s important for Operations to have visibility into what is being tested, and how thoroughly. Unlike manual tests, automated tests are executed faithfully and with the same rigor every time. They also yield reports and trend graphs that help identify risky areas.

Risk is a fact of life in software, but you can’t mitigate what you can’t anticipate. Do your operations team a favor and let them peek under the hood with you. Look for tools that support wallboards and let everyone involved in the project comment on specific build or deployment results. Extra points for tools that make it easy to get Operations involved in blitz testing and exploratory testing.

Tools we can use: Bamboo, Bitbucket, Capture for Jira

Step 7: Continuous feedback

Continuous feedback focuses on providing ongoing feedback and coaching by openly discussing an employee’s strengths and weaknesses on a regular basis. Feedback is of utmost importance to spot gaps and inefficiencies’ in the app.  Feedback loops are of great help for automated conversation among the tests. The right tool should be able to spot any issue using manual or automated mechanisms. A collaborative approach towards solving the problem should be adopted for achieving impeccable results.

Release dashboards

One of the most stressful parts of shipping software is getting all the change, test, and deployment information for an upcoming release into one place. The last thing anyone needs before a release is a long meeting to report on status. This is where release dashboards come in.

Look for tools with a single dashboard integrated with your code repository and deployment tools. Find something that gives you full visibility on branches, builds, pull requests, and deployment warnings in one place.

DevOps tools

The DevOps tool categories include the following:

• Version control: it is a set a set of apps that track any type of changes made in a set of files in the due course of time. It tracks software both manually and automatically. AS compared to early version control system, the modern Version control uses distributed storage using either one master server (subversion) or a web of distributed servers (git or mercurial). Version control systems keep track of dependencies present in the version, for instance, type, brand, and database.
• Building and deployment: It is a set of Tools that automate the building and deployment of software throughout the DevOps process, including continuous development and continuous integration.
• Functional and non-functional testing: It is a set of tools that provide an automated testing in both the functional and nonfunctional aspects of a DevOps. A set of testing tools should provide an integrated unit, check performance updates, and security of the app. The sole motive of these testing is to check the whole automation system.
• Provisioning: Config Management is part of provisioning. Basically, that’s using a tool like Chef, Puppet or Ansible to configure your server. “Provisioning” often implies it’s the first time you do it. Config management usually happens repeatedly. The tools that help in creating provisions podium required for deployment of the software and monitor the functions along with logging any changes that might occur to the configuration of the data or software. It helps in getting the system back in the state of equilibrium.

Must Have DevOps tools

Jenkins:  Jenkins a leader in DevOps tool for monitoring and implementation for repeated jobs. It allows DevOps teams to merge changes with ease and access outputs for a quick identification of problems.

Key Features:

• Self-contained Java-based program ready to run out of the box with Windows, Mac OS X, and other Unix-like operating systems
• Continuous integration and continuous delivery
• Easily set up and configured via a web interface
• Hundreds of plugins in the Update Center

Vagrant: Vagrant is another tool to help your organization transition to a DevOps culture. Vagrant also helps improve your entire workflow of using Puppet, improving development and process for both developers and operations

Key Features:

• No complicated setup process; simply download and install within minutes on Mac OS X, Windows, or a popular distribution of Linux
• Create a single file for projects describing the type of machine you want, the software you want to install, and how you want to access the machine, and then store the file with your project code
• Use a single command, vagrant up, and watch as Vagrant puts together your complete development environment so that DevOps team members have identical development environments

Monit: It is a simple watchdog tool that ensures that the given process is running appropriately on the software. It is easy to setup and configure for multiservice architecture

Key Features:

• Small open source utility for managing and monitoring Unix systems
• Conducts automatic maintenance and repair
• Executes meaningful causal actions in error situations

PagerDuty: A DevOps tool that helps in protection of brand reputation and customer experiences by gaining visibility into analytical systems and applications. It quickly detects and resolves incidents thereby delivering high performing apps and excellent customer experience.

Key Features:

• Real-time alerts
• Gain visibility into critical systems and applications
• Quickly detect, triage, and resolve incidents from development through production
• Full-stack visibility across dev and production environments
• Event intelligence for actionable insights

Prometheus: Prometheus is a popular DevOps with teams that use Grafana as the framework. It is an open-source service monitoring system with flexible query language for slicing time series data for the generation of alerts, tables and graphs. It supports more than 10 languages and easy to execute custom libraries.

Key Features:

• Flexible query language for slicing and dicing collected time series data to generate graphs, tables, and alerts
• Stores time series in memory and on local disk with scaling achieved by functional sharing and federation
• Supports more than 10 languages and includes easy-to-implement custom libraries
• Alerts based on Prometheus’s flexible query language
• Alert manager handles notifications and silencing

SolarWinds: It is a DevOps that offers real time correlation and remediation. Their Log & Event Manager software offers best troubleshooting, security solution and fixes, as well as data compliance.

Key Features:

• Normalize logs to quickly identify security incidents and simplify troubleshooting
• Out-Of-The-Box rules and reports for easily meeting industry compliance requirements
• Node-based licensing
• Real-time event correlation
• Real-time remediation
• File integrity monitoring
• Licenses for 30 nodes to 2,500 nodes

Conclusion:

No wonder, selecting the right tools for DevOps is a difficult task along with the complexity of the new tools that are relatively new for most of the development shops. However, if one follows guidelines and Checklist, one should be easily able to sail through the DevOps creating a foolproof system. To learn more about DevOps best practices, check out our other posts on why DevOps can have a huge impact on the efficiency of your SDLC or contact us on info@anarsolutions.com

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Benefits of “Single Page” websites

Single page websites are becoming very popular which is a fascinating trend.

Most people are spending more time online, and they don’t want to waste the little time they have. They’ve got things they want to be doing more than sifting through pages on your site to get the information they need. If somebody’s taken the time to go to your site, they want the information they’re looking for NOW. If they don’t find the content they need straight away they will simply leave.

Also, Advances in technology make it possible to push this trend further. The overall change in style of web development that has been happening for the last 10 years or so. The “Web 2.0” style of design is to remove as much clutter from the page as possible.

Single page websites give us many benefits.

Your users will surely have a good work experience if you have a single page website because there will be no much pages to navigate. Websites that are difficult to navigate and not mobile responsive are a big problem in the web development industry.

Single page designs create a uniformity across platforms where users are already used to scrolling content, interactive elements and intuitive navigation. This can be accomplished by utilizing a design concept we call Responsive +. This will not only ensure that your design adjusts in size to any device but that it feels right when viewed on any device.

One issue with websites that have a lot going on is that they are often hard to use. Whether it be because the page is cluttered or there are too many links to click, these websites are hard to digest. The main advantage of single page websites is easy navigation. Since there is only one page, your users will not get lost so you don’t need to worry about the navigation. Most probably you won’t need a navigation bar or if you want you can keep one navigation bar. One page websites make it easy for every user young and old. With minimal effort, users can scroll up and down without worrying about multiple pages.

Every good website should be operable on mobile devices as well as desktop computers. One page websites provide a beautiful look to the website on every device They will have an easy access to the information and they will not have any problem on how they can get into a relevant topic of your site. Your users will surely have a great, eye-pleasing (on every device) browsing time.

The main focus of Single Page Websites is that it focuses on quality and not quantity. You can simply focus on your website without thinking about the other pages of the site. You will have a better website with good quality and better results.

Since there is only single page, there are more chances for increased Google ranking. This means that the ranking will be applied to the whole site because there is a single page which can lead to higher traffic.

Bounce rates tend to be lower on single page sites. This is because there’s very little to do or become confused about. It’s just the visitor, a good story and the primary objective for which that site was designed for. If the site’s story and flow are effective, the bounce rates are going to reflect that reality by enticing visitors to hang out longer. Single page designs offer a unique way to organically propel visitors (and those they share your site with) into an effective sales funnel they actually enjoy.

Lastly earlier it was quiet an endeavor for both businesses and individuals to create beautiful, custom websites. Not just thousands of dollars, but tens of thousands of dollars. With a Single page website that’s no longer the case.

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Location based services

Have you ever been lost in a remote location? Nothing but a stretch of dry land for miles? If you have experienced this, you will greatly appreciate the Location based services (LBS), a product of recent technology. The services offered utilize a common piece of technology that records the geographical location from the user’s mobile device. This piece of data is converted to information by integrating user requirements and geographical locus.
Based on the location of the user, the service offers information/advertisement/entertainment. For example, if you were at the beach, the LBS services would offer you recommendations to a hotel nearby or a retail store that offers sunscreen. The LBS rely heavily on the user’s location. As it is only obtained from a GPS-enabled mobile phone, the technology behind the service provider revolves around the location of the user and takes into account the device’s geographical location. LBS typically provide information or entertainment.

How do LBS services work?
Retrieving the location of a user via a mobile phone involves two methods, the first being identification of the mobile phone network. The network plays a major role as the cellular ID can be used to backtrack the location of the base transceiver station (BTS). The BTS is the core of every cellular communication made using the mobile phone. Alternatively, the other method involves the use of GPS satellites. This is the most accurate method and is more popular when compared to the BTS location. With GPS-enabled smart phones available in the market, it is easier to locate a user as the mobile acts as a short-range location beacon.

Applications of LBS
There are numerous applications to LBS for the service providers as well as partner software-development companies. The applications can be classified into two types, Push and Pull. In the push LBS service, the service provider pushes the information to the user, without any prior request. This is done instantly and only requires the user to be registered on the network. On the other hand, the Pull LBS service, the user receives the information upon request, in a way, the user pulls the service and information from the provider only upon request.
• Provide location of retail stores
• Marketing for nearby companies
• Real-time solution to queries
• Recommendations for travel, stay, food, etc when on a trip
• Assistance when on the road: Nearest gas station
• Monitoring of workforce
• Management of workforce
• Courier delivery

Uses of location-based services

Companies have found several ways to use a device’s location:

• Store locators. Using location-based intelligence, retail customers can quickly find the nearest store location.
• Proximity-based marketing. Local companies can push ads only to individuals within the same geographic location. Location-based mobile marketing delivers ads to potential customers within that city who might actually act on the information.
• Travel information. An LBS can deliver real-time information, such as traffic updates or weather reports, to the smartphone so the user can plan accordingly.
• Roadside assistance. In the event of a blown tire or accident, many roadside assistance companies provide an app that allows them to track your exact location without the need for giving directions.
• Mobile workforce management. For logistics-dependent companies that employ individuals out in the field or at multiple locations, an LBS allows employees to check in at a location using their mobile device.
• Fraud prevention. An LBS creates another level of security by matching a customer’s location through the smartphone to a credit card transaction. Tying the smartphone’s location to a credit card allows you to flag transactions made across several geographic locations over a short time.
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Versioning in Entity Framework ( EF)

Most of the people feels Entity Framework versioning headache. This is due to differences in what EF can support depending on what version of the .NET run time your app is targeting. In today’s blog, I will cover simple errors and the versioning challenges and solutions related to it.

Most of the people struggles with errors like,

Unable to find version ‘4.4.0.0’ of package ‘EntityFramework’.

This is due to differences in what EF can support depending on what version of the .NET run time your app is targeting.

• If you are targeting .NET 4 and install EF 5, the assembly version will be 4.4
• If you are targeting .NET 4.5 and install EF 5, the assembly version will be 5.0

This is because things such as DBGeography only can work if .NET 4.5 is present.

We just need to install EF 5 proper and the NuGet package will figure this out and give you the proper version.

One point to be very clear about :   There is nothing like Entity Framework 4.4”

The 4.4 comes from assembly version of EntityFramework dll when you install EntityFramework 5.0 into the project that targets .Net framework 4.0. This is merely the side effect of how the assembly loads and binds to assemblies, and in no way reflects the version of the product.

Here is the simple code that prints out version information about the EntityFramework assembly

var assembly = type(DBContext).Assembly;

var name = assembly.GetName();

var info = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(assembly.Location);

Console.WriteLine(“AssemblyVersion: {0}”, name.Version);

Console.WriteLine(“Product  Version: {0}”, info.ProductVersion);

When we run above code on application targeting

On .Net Framework 4.5, we get the following output:

• Assembly Version: 5.0.0.0
• Product Version: 5.0.0.net45

On .Net Framework 4.0, we get the following output:

• Assembly Version: 4.4.0.0
• Product Version: 5.0.0.net40

As you can see, the product version in both case is 5.0

So, always refer to the product as EntityFramework 5.0, and if you think the information is relevant, also let people know what version of the .Net Framework you are targeting.

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ASP.net MVC with Angular 2

Writing web applications nowadays is becoming a bit more complex as the frameworks evolve taking advantage of other frameworks/tools. The ASP.NET framework, a popular model for creating web applications, works on a simple three-way architectural model known as the MVC pattern. MVC, an abbreviation for Model-View-Controller, is a model that functions upon the classification of an application into three key components. Serving as an alternative to the conventional Web forums model to create applications for the web, the ASP.NET MVC framework offers a lighter, more stable and compatible solution. Easily integrated with the present ASP.NET features, for example, the master pages, the framework holds promise. With an architectural pattern that many developers are accustomed to, the ASP.NET MVC framework could be used universally to develop new web applications. Another best aspect of the framework is its openness to integration with other frameworks or supplementary applications.
One such framework is the AngularJS. Angular 2, a product of AngularJS is a framework that is used in combination with ASP.NET MVC framework to effectively develop web applications. The Angular line of frameworks is often used to create software link components, interfaces of web applications, and other integrated programming tasks. The motivation behind the development of the combination, ASP.net MVC with Angular 2 was to improve performance and stability of web applications and interfaces.

What ASP.NET MVC brings to the table:
• As the ASP.NET framework has been around for longer and seen several revisions, it has remained as one of the most widely used and popular frameworks.
• There is no shortage of instructions on the official website for the ASP.NET Site MVC framework hosted on Microsoft covers every concept related to the practical application of web protocols.
• Using the open-ended platform’s flexibility to better its purpose and add more functionality is possible.
• Microsoft’s support backing the nascent platforms under ASP.net is reassuring.

What Angular 2 brings to the table:
• The Angular 2 framework is of the declarative markup type and requires mentioning of the data bindings and HTML syntax in the markup.
• There is complete freedom in terms of your model, as Angular 2 does not hold any requirement for a pattern to be followed for model design.
• Angular 2 believes in reliable outputs. The dependency injection feature is an indicative of the same.

What ASP.net MVC with Angular 2 brings to the table:
• The framework ASP.net model updates frequently to make it better courtesy of the developers at Microsoft.
• It is lighter to operate as Angular server side rendering helps loading applications much faster.
• Integrates well with the third party Angular libraries
• There is inherent support for Docker making it easy to deploy docker containers.

ASP.net MVC vs ASP.net Core

The choice between ASP.Net core and ASP.Net MVC has been widely debated and at its roots has been one of the most interesting comparisons being considered. In the field of web application development and API, the two platforms, even with their high popularity and functionality, have the slightest differences. However, the platforms have their own advantages and disadvantages, and it is hard to classify either one of them as superior over the other.

The similarities

The similarity between the two frameworks is the stability. Not only are the ASP.Net core and ASP.Net MVC supported by Microsoft currently by means of the Windows SQL server but also for a minimum of 4 years. The support from Microsoft in the near future for both frameworks is promising. With respect to their approach, both frameworks follow a version of MVC, the model-view-controller for creating web applications. The MVC perspective offers a modern, faster, and a more convenient approach to coding that helps in effective web application development. The frameworks also share a similar Razor template language.

Why Pick ASP.Net Core

The ASP.Net core should be the framework of your choice if you are looking to improve your web application’s raw performance. Stability and reliability are offered with the ASP.Net core framework. Constant updating of the code to better develop your application and keep up with the times in technology, you would find working with the ASP.NET Core framework to be more convenient. This is because of the framework’s flexibility. This is also indicated in the framework’s compatibility for developing web applications that work on multiple operating systems.

Why Pick MVC

ASP.Net with MVC, a common among various websites online, has been tried and tested for the past decade. Not only is it popular but also is an active budding platform with an ecosystem that has several packages. Over the past few years, these packages have been curated and revised. Consider the MVC framework if you are looking to deploy your web applications to containers, especially the new Windows container model.

To conclude
To choose the better from the two frameworks is not an objective matter. Depending on the requirement of the application and upon review of features offered by each framework, the ideal framework for a specific type of web application is decided. As the basis of both the models is the .Net platform standard, there is very little that separates the two. A common feature that both the frameworks offer is the compatibility and reliability. They can be used to create web applications that operate across operating systems on different platforms.

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