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ASP.NET MVC Final Project

This document describes the final project assignment for the ASP.NET MVC course at Telerik Academy.

Project Description

Design and implement an ASP.NET MVC application. It can be a discussion forum, blog system, e-commerce site, online gaming site, social network, or any other web application by your choice.

The application should have:

• public part (accessible without authentication)
• private part (available for registered users)
• administrative part (available for administrators only)

Public Part

The public part of your projects should be visible without authentication.

This public part could be the application start page, the user login and user registration forms, as well as the public data of the users, e.g. the blog posts in a blog system, the public offers in a bid system, the products in an e-commerce system, etc.

Private Part (Users only)

Registered users should have private part in the web application accessible after successful login.

This part could hold for example the user's profiles management functionality, the user's offers in a bid system, the user's posts in a blog system, the user's photos in a photo sharing system, the user's contacts in a social network, etc.

Administration Part

System administrators should have administrative access to the system and permissions to administer all major information objects in the system, e.g. to create/edit/delete users and other administrators, to edit/delete offers in a bid system, to edit/delete photos and album in a photo sharing system, to edit/delete posts in a blogging system, edit/delete products and categories in an e-commerce system, etc.

General Requirements

Your Web application should use the following technologies, frameworks and development techniques:

• Use ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio 2015
• You should use Razor template engine for generating the UI
  • You may use any JavaScript library of your choice
    • For example Kendo UI widgets (with the ASP.NET MVC Wrappers), Chart.js for charts, etc.
  • ASP.NET WebForms is not allowed
  • Use sections and partial views
  • Use editor and/or display templates
• Use MS SQL Server as database back-end
  • Use Entity Framework 6 to access your database
  • Using repositories and/or service layer is a must
• Use at least 2 areas in your project (e.g. for administration)
• Create tables with data with server-side paging and sorting for every model entity
  • You can use Kendo UI grid, jqGrid, any other library or generate your own HTML tables
• Create beautiful and responsive UI
  • You may use Bootstrap or Materialize
  • You may change the standard theme and modify it to apply own web design and visual styles
• Use the standard ASP.NET Identity System for managing users and roles
  • Your registered users should have at least one of the two roles: user and administrator
• Use AJAX form and/or SignalR communication in some parts of your application
• Use caching of data where it makes sense (e.g. starting page)
• Apply error handling and data validation to avoid crashes when invalid data is entered (both client-side and server-side)
• Prevent yourself from security holes (XSS, XSRF, Parameter Tampering, etc.)
  • Handle correctly the special HTML characters and tags like <script>, <br />, etc.
• Create unit tests for your "business" functionality following the best practices for writing unit tests (at least 80% code coverage) - ~30% of the points for the project (IF YOU HAVE UNDER 50% CODE COVERAGE YOU WILL NOT PASS THE EXAM)
• Use Dependency Inversion principle and Dependency Injection technique following the best practices - ~20% of the points for the project
• Integrate your app with a Continuous Integration server (Jenkins, AppVeyor or other) - configure your unit tests to run on each commit to your master branch (MANDATORY REQUIREMENT)
• Use GitHub and take advantage of the branches for writing your features.
• Documentation of the project and project architecture (as .md file, including screenshots)

Optional Requirements (bonus points)

• Write integration tests and configure them to run as part of your CI build
• Originality of the idea (uniqueness)
• Using some king of machine learning (AI)
• Using external devices (e.g. Raspberry Pi)
• Host your application in Azure (or any other public hosting provider)

Deliverables

Put the following in a ZIP archive and submit it:

• The source code (everything except /bin/, /obj/, /packages/)
• The project documentation
• Screenshots of your application
• If hosted online - the URL of the application

Public Project Defense

Each student will have to make a public defense of its work to the trainers (~30-40 minutes). It includes:

• Live demonstration of the developed web application (please prepare sample data).
• Explain application structure and its source code
• Show the commit logs in the source control repository to prove a contribution from all team members.