kentico 11 portal engine templates migration to kentico 12 MVC templates

innovix solutions asked on March 3, 2019 15:20

Hi All,

Do you think we should migrate kentico 11 portal engine development with Aspx template files to kentico 12 MVC development?

Let me know your opinion.

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Brenden Kehren answered on March 4, 2019 14:51

There is no direct migration/upgrade from v11 Portal/ASPX to v12 MVC. Your best bet is to start from scratch utilizing Kentico's best practices for MVC development in Kentico and port over any data you can assuming it follows the new structure.

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vasu yerramsetti answered on March 3, 2019 19:22 (last edited on March 4, 2019 04:32)

For Kentico 12 MVC development you should create front end from scratch.

Recommended approach is,

First create New Kentico 12 Blank MVC website
Create new MVC project as per Kentico recommendation
Create page types as Content only and migrate content from Kentico 11 PE to Kentico 12 MVC website using Kentico API
Create front end from scratch as per Kentico 12 MVC development model.

Refer below URLs for your reference,

https://devnet.kentico.com/documentation/kentico-12-mvc

https://docs.kentico.com/k12tutorial/mvc-development

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Juraj Ondrus answered on March 4, 2019 20:08

Web forms and MVC are two different development models in general, not only in Kentico. They use different programming approach, the theory how it works is also different, different way of working with data and so on. You can see the differences in this nice article. And this one is nice too.

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