Need advice for .Net project solution architecture

Rakesh R

10y1.3k.NET

Hi All,

Looking for your valuable advice on solution architecture for my requirement.

I have a requirement to develop an application using c#.Net, ASP.Net and SQL Server. The application should develop using latest version of .Net which can easily brows able in desktop and download as APP in mobile and IPad.

Key features of application are,

1) 2 way chatting facility to users (May be third party tools, I will use)

2) Able to send SMS to users (May be third party tools, I will use)

3) Generating dashboards and reports. The reports should be able to export to excel

4) Email Notifications to users

Here my question is,

1) Which version of .net I need to use to develop the application with above features and can able to run on multiple platforms (Multiple devices)?

2) Which tool I need to use to develop application like Visual Studio or Xamarin or any other free best tool, please advice.

3) I don’t want develop, deploy or maintain source code in multiple locations based on client (Mobile, Desktop or IPad). I want to write code in one place and build, deploy in one location which can be work as APP, web application. Please advise here development and deployment methods need to follow.

Hope I have given you clear information to understand and respond. In case need any more information, please let me know.

Thanking in advance for your kind response.

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Francis Susaimichael9y ago
Which version of .net I need to use to develop the application with above features and can able to run on multiple platforms (Multiple devices)?
Go with latest version of ASP.Net 4.6.
Which tool I need to use to develop application like Visual Studio or Xamarin or any other free best tool, please advice.
Go with Visual studio community edition. I hope Xamarin also include with Visual Studio.
I don’t want develop, deploy or maintain source code in multiple locations based on client (Mobile, Desktop or IPad). I want to write code in one place and build, deploy in one location which can be work as APP, web application. Please advise here development and deployment methods need to follow.
I didn't get your point clear on this question. You can't use the same code for the mobile app. However, you can reuse the business logic for both if you design well. You should atleast have 2 different solutions, one for web app and another for mobile app. That's all!
Nitin Sontakke9y ago
An answer to the question like this, could possibly a set of blog posts or even a decently sized book. And I am almost certainly not going to cover all of the aspects.

One definite part of your application is a service oriented architecture (SOA). In the simplest form you will need to have all of the function exposed as a service. This makes it easy to write diverse front-ends. If you take Xamarin path, hopefully, achieving multi platform deployment should be easy.

While this may sound too early, you may also consider development using ASP.NET Core as it is going to be the standard application development platform in next few years for sure. By the time you finish development and deployment, the current latest development .net platform will be out-dated.

Some other fronts missing from your question, which you might have taken for granted are security (at what level and at what layer or at multiple layers).

Exception handling and logging. Consider log4net on this front.

Auditing. You may or may not need this. But give a serious consideration to this, as implementing it later would be a painful activity.