I knew this conversation was familiar! I asked the very same thing about the licensing in November last year. MessageID# 1627580. That conversation was pretty inconclusive. I think the best suggestion was to contact MS and ask. Would you have an email address for someone in MS that it would make sense sending a query to?
>I there a reason you're going with DevExpress? I've had bad experiences with their products.
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>That said, only go with Mere Mortals if it supports MVC directly. Otherwise, it seems too framework heavy for what today's web sites are.
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>MVC is the way to go. It seems that .NET Core 1.0 is not ready for primetime, so stick with MVC 5.
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>Entity Framework is what Microsoft is pushing. it makes it easy to access data, but speed is a bit slower than going with ADO.NET. If you're learning MVC, stick with EF because that's how all the samples are done. You can swap out the data layer later
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>Yes, go with the new version, but stay away from .NET Core. Depending on your company size, you may be able to get away with the Community Edition. (Check licensing requirements)
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>>Hi,
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>>I am going to start developing a simple ASP.NET application using the existing tools that I have. These are:
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>>Mere Mortals.net
>>DevExpress ASP.NET
>>Visual Studio 2010 Professional
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>>I don't want to purchase anything else as this project won't really cover any new expenses.
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>>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?)
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>>So, some advice is welcome.
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>>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?
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>>Should I go with MVC, MVVM? Something else?
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>>Is Entity Framework still the best thing to use?
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>>Should I go with the free newer version of Visual Studio? I think I used VS Web Express 2013 a couple years back.
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>>So many questions :)
