Advice for migrating from XSD-based ADO.NET to Entity Framework (.NET Framework 4.8 -> .NET Upgrade)
Hi everyone 
I'm currently working on a progressive migration of a large ASP.NET Web Forms application (targeting .NET Framework 4.8.1) toward a modern .NET (likely .NET 9 or 8 LTS). One of the big tasks we want to tackle is replacing the existing ADO.NET data access layer, which is built using typed datasets (.xsd files), with Entity Framework.
I'm currently working on a progressive migration of a large ASP.NET Web Forms application (targeting .NET Framework 4.8.1) toward a modern .NET (likely .NET 9 or 8 LTS). One of the big tasks we want to tackle is replacing the existing ADO.NET data access layer, which is built using typed datasets (.xsd files), with Entity Framework.
Key context:
- We want to keep things working under .NET Framework 4.8.1 temporarily, while gradually introducing .NET 8/9.
- Ideally, we'd like to start using EF in new code while using it for the current Web Forms project (not sure if it's possible).
- We'd prefer to minimize duplicated code and avoid maintaining two separate infrastructures if possible.
