ASP.Net Core 2 with Postgresql on Linux Part 9: The View Layer

In Part I, I discussed the rationale for porting a ASP.Net Core 2 app to my Linux system replacing SQL Server with Postgresql and place it on Heroku. 

With Part II, we transferred the SQL Server data to Postgres.

In Part III, I create the ASP.Net MVC Core 2.x app, from which we will proceed, and get Entity Framework Core installed.

Then in Part IV, I look at the configuration differences between the ASP.Net MVC app that uses SQL Server and the new app, in preparation of porting the old app to use Postgresql.

Part V, we compared the differences in both the projects' structures and ported the existing project code, starting with the data model layer, to the new project. In addition to this, we got the jquery.countdown jquery plugin installed, that is used to implement a JavaScript timer. More on that in a later article. Finally, we used the dotnet ef dbcontext scaffold command that builds a DbContext and entity types for out Postgresql database. And, oh yes, we added the project to github, which frankly should have been done day one.

In Part VI, we got the NUnit testing framework in place in order to test both the new and future code.

In Part VII, we got the Service layer setup along with its unit tests.

In Part VIII we imported the Controller classes from the existing app and setup unit tests for them.

In this post, we will migrate the Razor (*.cshtml) files as well as the associated JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), and image files from the existing app.

As we have done in past posts, let's use Beyond Compare to see what needs to move. 

So, as with the other tiers, we have some files to move in this layer.

After using Beyond Compare to move the Razor files, here is the view:

Next, let's look at the contents of the wwwroot folder, that holds the JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), and image files.

From here I simply replaced the contents of the new app with the JavaScript, Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), and image files of the existing app. 

Now, we need to build and see what happens. 

So, thus far, all is good. However, we know that the Program.cs and Startup.cs files as well as the appsettings.json and project files (*.csproj) content is still different. In the next post, Part X, we will migrate them from utilizing SQL Server to accessing Postgresql for data.