Hi Rob,
Thank you for your interest in Syncfusion products.
We are glad that you are migrating your application with our Syncfusion components. Syncfusion grids are compatible in converting it by hand. Since Essential Grid provides meaningful and modest APIs, it would be easy to us for converting it by hand. If you need more code clarifications with the functionalities, you can refer our below online documentations,
User Guide: http://help.syncfusion.com/ug/windows%20forms/documents/overview8.htm
Knowledge Base: http://www.syncfusion.com/support/kb/windowsforms
If you still need any technical assistance for our products, you can create a support ticket (incident) using the below link,
http://www.syncfusion.com/account/dashboard
Please let me know if you have any concerns.
Regards,
Christo