This demo was made for an article in the Windows Developer magazine which was printed in November 2018.
The article descripts an approach to migrate a huge legacy pc app to a modern web app step-by-step. To release asap the usage of old functionality in the new app is a good option. Usually it's not possible to migrate code from decades within a year.
In the Demo the web client an the locally installed WinForms app communicate through a SignalR Hub which is also installed on the users computer.
- Windows (WinForms)
- Visual Studio 2017
- Git: https://git-scm.com/downloads
- Node.js und NPM: https://nodejs.org
- Angular CLI: npm install -g @angular/cli (https://cli.angular.io/)
- Recommended: Visual Studio Code (or similar): https://code.visualstudio.com/Download
- Start Command Line Console in the directory you want to have the code
- run
git clone https://github.com/AngularAtTrivadis/WebWinFormsInteraction.git
- Navigate (cmd) to the folder 'WebFrontend'
- run
code .to open the folder in VS Code and return to the console - run
npm installto restore the node_modules (npm packages) - run
ng serve
- Navigate to the folder 'DotNetParts' and open DotNetParts.sln with Visual Studio
- Restore Nuget Packages
- Run App by Pressing F5. SignalR Hub (Console App), WebAPI (AspNet .NetCore) and WinForms App will be started.
- Start "Old App" from the starter form.
- Open the Web App by klicking the button top left.
- Choose and change person in the "New Web App" and observe the synchronization in the old App.
- Press "Edit" on the person -> the old App changes to Edit Mode and appear in front.
- Save... Edit... Change person... close WinForms App (not the Starter Form) -> Web App logs out. Re-open old App -> Web is awailable again...
- ...
- General recipe for migrating old apps.
Check, design, protoype and challenge your situation in your environment! My article in the Windows Developer magazine (December 2018) might give your additional useful thoughts to this topic.