DOP321

Migrating .NET frameworks

to the cloud
Robert Zhu
Principal Technical Evangelist
Amazon Web Services

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Agenda
• Overview of .NET tooling on AWS

• AWS Elastic Beanstalk intro

• Sample application (mailing list manager)

• Demo

• Step by step

• Troubleshooting
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.NET Framework
.NET tools on AWS

AWS Toolkit for AWS Toolkit for AWS SDK AWS CLI
Visual Studio Visual Studio Code for .NET

AWS Tools for AWS Tools for AWS SAM for AWS CDK
PowerShell and Azure DevOps Windows for .NET
PowerShell Core
AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio AWS Toolkit for
Visual Studio

• AWS Explorer tree view of AWS resources

• Manage S3 buckets
• Manage IAM users, groups, and policies
• View, create, and delete Amazon DynamoDB
tables
• Manage Amazon SQS queues and SNS topics and
much more
• Right-click publish Web apps to AWS Elastic
Beanstalk & Lambda
• .NET Framework and .NET Core AWS SDK
• Visual Studio project templates for AWS services
• Quick start project templates
AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio AWS Toolkit for
Visual Studio
AWS Elastic Beanstalk

• Easily deploy, monitor, and scale three-tier Web

applications and services
• Infrastructure provisioned and managed by Elastic
Beanstalk — but you maintain complete control
• Preconfigured application containers that
are easily customizable
• Support for: Microsoft NET .NET Core
AWS Elastic Beanstalk

Your code Focus on building your application

HTTP server Elastic Beanstalk configures each

EC2 instance in your environment
Application server
with the components necessary to
run applications for the selected
Language interpreter platform. No more worrying about
Operating system
logging into instances to install and
configure your application stack
Host

Provided by you

Provided and managed by AWS Elastic Beanstalk

https://github.com/robzhu/mailman

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Prerequisites
• Visual Studio 2019 Community Edition
• Extension: AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio 2017 & 2019
• SQL Server Express 2017
• SQL Server Management Studio 2018
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Troubleshooting

Connection string needs a port

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/
latest/dg/create_deploy_NET.rds.html#dotnet-rds-connect
Troubleshooting

Update-Package Microsoft.CodeDom.Providers.DotNetCompilerPlatform -r
Troubleshooting

Use the right SQL client

Troubleshooting

SSMS cannot connect to RDS?

Add inbound rule Ensure connection string is

to security group correct (uses comma)

Make sure public access Use the right

enabled on the DB management client
Troubleshooting

“Cannot implicitly convert from type X to IQueryable”

Make sure you didn’t create an ASP.NET Web forms page with a class
name that conflicts
Source code

https://github.com/robzhu/mailman
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Thank you!
Robert Zhu
robzhu@amazon.com
@rbzhu

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