DevOpsDays Graz 2025 Sample Application

This is the companion repository for the workshop "Modern Delivery for Not-so-modern Software" on the DevOpsDays Graz 2025.

Repository Structure

The main branch contains the start of the workshop on which the participant should work while following along the workshop.

The workshop-steps branch will contain the results of the steps in the workshop as separate git commits and can be used as a reference.

Sample Application

The sample application is a simple ToDo List application. However, there are a few things that that make it hard to build: copying files, manually entering version numbers, manual signing, etc.

In the workshop we will take the application and modernize its delivery step by step.

Folder Structure

• data/: contains the file default-tasks.xml, which is a dev fallback for the template engine
• scripts/: contains the signing script (only works on windows)
• src/: source code of the application
  • DevOpsDaysTasks.Core/: models, services and database access of the app
  • DevOpsDaysTasks.Core.Tests/: tests for models and services
  • DevOpsDaysTasks.IntegrationTests/: tests that actually query a database
  • DevOpsDaysTasks.UI/: UI and main application
• workshop_material/: additional material for participants, e.g., the file that should be copied with a release
  • release_steps.md: instruction on how to perform a manual release

How to Start the Application

⚠️ This application requires .NET 8 SDK or later

Run dotnet run --project .\src\DevOpsDaysTasks.UI\.

Switching between MSSQL and SQLite

By default the application uses localDB. For cross-platform compatibility also a SQLite adapter is implemented. Replace DbKind.SqlServer with DbKind.Sqlite in MainWindow.axaml.cs and MSSQLFixture.cs to use SQLite.