I am working on an ASP.NET MVC web application that was built with DevExpress 12.1 tools including DevExpress XPO.
Due to licensing issue, I have task in which I want to remove Devexpress components entirely from that web application.
After r&d, I found at the first step of removing, I need to change datalayer to Entity-Framework (currently using XPO).
I know the manual process, but can anybody suggest how to do this? Is this any online tool or suggestion which achieve my work speedily?
I use XPO in one application and EF Core in another. I would happily move away from XPO forever, EF Core is a much better experience - the linq to entities is way better than linq to xpo, and while there are lots of other reasons, the most important thing is that you can change properties by ID with EF Core - in XPO you have to load the object first and then change the object reference. I have begun to truly loathe working with my project that is dependent on XPO so I have been looking for an answer for this for a long time.
I have sadly come to the conclusion that the best way is a gradual migration. You can run the models side by side and just change components over on a progressive basis. This way you can keep the application functional while moving between ORMs. There is sadly no esy way to do this.