pankajrawat333 / bobs-used-bookstore-classic-ado-dot-net

Bob's Used Books Classic

Overview

Bob's Used Books Classic is a backport of the Bob's Used Books Sample Application. Bob's Used Books Classic is an ASP.NET MVC application that targets .NET Framework 4.8.

Prerequisites

To run and debug the application locally you need the following:

• A Windows-based development environment
• The .NET Framework 4.8 Developer Pack
• A modern IDE, for example Visual Studio 2022 or JetBrains Rider

To deploy the application to AWS you need the following:

• An AWS IAM User with an attached AdministratorAccess policy
• The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
• Bootstrap your AWS environment for the AWS CDK by executing cdk bootstrap in a terminal window
• Docker Desktop for Windows running Windows containers

Getting started

Clone the repository or download the source code and open the solution in your preferred IDE. Set Bookstore.Web as the startup project then press F5 to debug the application.

By default, Bob's Used Books Classic is completely disconnected from AWS. When you are ready you can configure the application to use AWS services by deploying the BobsUsedBooksClassicCore CDK stack and updating the service setting in the application's web.config file. The application service settings are found within the <appSettings> section and are prefixed with "Services/":

<appSettings>
    ...
    <add key="Services/Authentication" value="local" />
    <add key="Services/Database" value="local" />
    <add key="Services/FileService" value="local" />
    <add key="Services/ImageValidationService" value="local" />
    <add key="Services/LoggingService" value="local" />
    ...
</appSettings>

Change the value of a service from "local" to "aws" to use the AWS implementation of that service.

With the exception of the database service*, you can use any combination of AWS services you like from within your development environment.

* The RDS for SQL Server database is deployed to a private subnet and is not accessible outside of the application's VPC

Amazon Cognito first run

Use the following credentials the first time you authenticate using the AWS implementation of the authentication service:

• Username: Admin
• Password: P@ssword1

Deployment

Bob's Used Books Classic includes a CDK stack called BobsUsedBooksClassicECS that automatically containerizes the application and deploys it to Amazon ECS on Fargate. You need to have Docker Desktop configured to use Windows containers before deploying the CDK stack. To deploy the application, open a terminal window and execute the following command:

cdk deploy BobsUsedBooksClassicECS

When the application is deployed to ECS on Fargate it is automatically configured to integrate with all supported AWS services except for Amazon Cognito. The Amazon Cognito Hosted UI requires login redirects to use HTTPS (except for http://localhost). ECS on Fargate is configured to use HTTP which means the application has to use the local authentication service.

Deleting the resources

When you have completed working with the sample applications we recommend deleting the resources to avoid possible charges. To do this, either:

• Navigate to the CloudFormation dashboard in the AWS Management Console and delete all BobsUsedBooksClassic stacks, or

• In a terminal window navigate to the solution folder and run the command cdk destroy BobsUsedBooksClassic*.