Since the introduction of Kentico Cloud last year at the 404 conference in Las Vegas, we have been eager to start on a real life project. In this session I hope to get you excited about the technology and help you kickstart your next .NET Core Kentico Cloud project!

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2. a winning combination

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4. To do:
1. About Kramp
2. Describe the project
3. Choose the right tech
4. Connect the dots
5. Quick demo
6. Inspect the outcome
7. Answer questions

5. About Kramp

6. Describe the project

7. Describe
the project
Challenges
Integration with Workday (HR system)
International platform (single site)
but still appealing to a local target group
Handle country specific vacancies (map)

8. Describe
the project
Create the career site
Target customers: HR business partners
Target audiences: New employees
Target architectures: Headless, Microservices
Target technologies: Kentico Cloud, .NET Core
Target platforms: Microsoft Azure, VSTS

9. Describe
the project
Content first planning

10. Choose the right tech

11. Choose the right
tech
Kentico Cloud
Is not the same as Kentico EMS, it’s a different product (SaaS)
Provides “Content as a Service” via REST API’s (Kentico Deliver)
Offers structured content and digital assets via global CDN’s
Contains integrated analytics and visitor profiling (Kentico Engage)
Does not require additional hosting

12. Choose the right
tech
Why did we choose .NET Core MVC?
The project needs a head
.NET Core is Cross-Platform (Windows, macOS, Linux)
TrueLime has lots of experience with ASP.NET MVC
Kentico Cloud Boilerplate for ASP.NET Core MVC is already available
Developers love to work with the latest technologies

13. Choose the right
tech
Kramp microservice architecture

14. Connect the dots

15. Connect
the dots
Continuously deploy to Azure

16. Connect
the dots
Create the Kentico Cloud project

17. Connect
the dots
Fork the boilerplate
It’s open source
There are several boilerplates for Kentico Cloud available (.NET, Javascript, Swift)
Kentico Cloud Boilerplate for development of ASP.NET Core MVC applications
Tip: Please ensure you have the latest update of Visual Studio 2017, install the SDK
and runtime from here. Finally upgrade the project to .NET Core 2.0

18. Connect
the dots
Content modelling in a headless world
Give editors flexibility to translate every piece of content
Have a strongly typed setup to prevent the website from breaking if content is not
present (translated) or when it is in a wrong format
Tip: You can use content type snippets to group content elements and reuse them in
one or more content types.

19. Connect
the dots
Kentico Cloud model generator
Leverage strongly-typed models
Use it to validate if the models have changed
Kentico Cloud model generator utility for .NET
Tip: For structured rich text rendering add the --structuredmodel parameter.

20. Connect
the dots
Structured Rich Text Rendering (inline widgets)

22. Inspect the outcome

23. Inspect the outcome
In retrospect: Kentico Cloud
Kentico Cloud offers a Vintage Kentico Experience
 minimal learning curve
We can shorten development time using Kentico Cloud
 no need for installation and hosting of the CMS
Content type snippets is a great addition
 new features are constantly being added to Kentico Cloud
Translating content is not always clear
 don’t translate the content name/title, keep them in the same language
Rich Text Rendering gives editors flexibility
 big improvement compared to Kentico EMS

24. Inspect the outcome
In retrospect: .NET Core
First real-life project with .NET Core
 our developers loved it
Works well for easy/smaller projects
 complex projects could cause issues because .NET Core misses features
Introduces new features compared to ASP.NET MVC
 ViewComponents, out-of-the-box Dependency Injection
Debugging can be a pain
 stack trace only shows exception but not the source
Option to develop and deploy on other platforms
 Kramp is not tied to Microsoft tech

26. Answer questions

27. Answer questions
Useful resources
https://kenticocloud.com/blog
https://kenticocloud.com/blog/what-headless-cms-means-to-digital-agencies
http://blogs.jeroenfurst.nl/blog/december-2017/kentico-cloud-and-net-core-a-winning-combination
https://github.com/Kentico/cloud-boilerplate-net
https://github.com/Kentico/cloud-generators-net
https://www.microsoft.com/net/download/core
https://kenticocloud.com/blog/structured-rich-text-rendering-in-mvc

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THANKS FOR LISTENING!

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