Sri Bodhiraja Dhamma School

Sri Bodhiraja Dharmayathanaya is a bilingual (Sinhala and English) Dhamma school in Ambalipitiya, Sri Lanka. Its web platform manages students, teachers, classrooms and class assignments, with role-based portals for school administrators and teachers.

The original system was an ASP.NET MVC application on .NET Framework 4.8, with business logic spread across controllers and tied directly to data access. That made it harder to change safely, test and host, just as the school needed new workflows such as year-end student promotion with approvals.

• Migration to ASP.NET Core 8 alongside the legacy application rather than a one-step rewrite
• A layered architecture: controllers, services and repositories
• Student, teacher, classroom and class-assignment management
• Year-end student promotion with an approval workflow
• Role-based access and teacher dashboards with ASP.NET Core Identity
• Automated build and deployment with Azure Pipelines

• .NET 8
• ASP.NET Core MVC
• ASP.NET Core Identity
• EF Core
• SQL Server
• Azure Pipelines
• Linux

1. 01

   Incremental migration

   The ASP.NET Core application was built beside the .NET Framework 4.8 system instead of replacing it in one step, so the school kept working throughout.

2. 02

   Business logic in a service layer

   Rules such as student promotion live in services between controllers and repositories, so they're testable and reused rather than duplicated across screens.

3. 03

   Repeatable deployments

   Azure Pipelines builds the application on Linux and deploys it over SSH, so releases no longer rely on manual copying.

The school runs on a supported, modern .NET platform with a clearer codebase, role-based access for staff and automated deployments, ready for new features without reworking the foundations.

• Custom Software
• Cloud & Infrastructure
• Modernisation & Consulting