Examine .NET Core as a development platform for Monitor ERP System AB

Sammanfattning: The objective of this study has been to examine the portability of Moni- tor ERP System AB’s existing .NET Framework codebase to .NET Core. The study has been conducted by examining the portability of Monitor’s projects by using Microsoft’s .NET Portability Analyzer and visualizing the dependencies of projects by using AsmSpy to gain an understanding of what order projects need to be ported. An examination of used third-party libraries has also been conducted to see which libraries are not compatible with .NET Core. And an attempt to port Monitor’s root solution has been made as a proof-of-concept and to make test and build duration compar- isons between the ported solution and the old solution. The .NET Porta- bility Analyzer reported that 19 projects aren’t 100% compatible with .NET Core (+ Windows Compatibility Pack) where some projects have one miss- ing API call while others have many more. The third-party library examina- tion showed that two libraries are not compatible with .NET Core, the first is Dynamsoft Dynamic .NET TWAIN SDK which can probably be replaced with VintaSoft Twain .NET SDK, and SAP SQL Anywhere which doesn’t have a direct replacement. The results of the comparison show that test duration speeds improved on average by 22.5% with a peak of 67.6%, and build duration differences were negligible. Porting to .NET Core will not be easy, but if fixes for the 19 incompatible Monitor projects are completed and a replacement for SQL Anywhere can be found, then Monitor ERP System AB can make a successful port to .NET Core.