Hi,

I am going to start developing a simple ASP.NET application using the existing tools that I have. These are:

Mere Mortals.net
DevExpress ASP.NET
Visual Studio 2010 Professional

I don't want to purchase anything else as this project won't really cover any new expenses.

The system is a front end for a 4 or 5 table database with no real data processing, just CRUD operations and a couple reports, exports and creation of Word Documents (Is openXML still the way to go for that?)

So, some advice is welcome.

Should I bother with Mere Mortals or not? Anything else out here that is freely available which replaces its functionality? I haven't done anything using it in years so I'll have to re-learn it anyhow. Will the DevExpress stuff work easily with MM.NET?

Should I go with MVC, MVVM? Something else?

Is Entity Framework still the best thing to use?

Should I go with the free newer version of Visual Studio? I think I used VS Web Express 2013 a couple years back.

So many questions :)