Is it possible to use BreezeJS with DevForce2010?

Question

We developed a Silverlight application some years ago that used DevForce2010.

If we would develop a web-application based on BreezeJS today, would it be possible to use the same EF-model/DevForce-server that we used in Silverlight? or would it be easier to start from scratch with a Breeze-server at the back-end?

Is there a good tutorial on how to develop a SPA/AngularJS/BreezeJS/EntityFramework application?

Answer 1

For a great tutorial on Angular + Breeze, see John Papa's two Pluralsight courses (Part 1 and Part 2) .

I think for the backend you'd be better off building a Web API than trying to reuse your DevForce back-end exactly "as is". This does not mean a re-write! If you've written back-end DevForce code, most (if not all) will be in "save changes" interceptors. There are very similar extension points (BeforeSaveEntities and AfterSaveEntities) in the EFContextProvider for Breeze .NET servers; you should be able to port your code there with relative ease.