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Entity Developer improves Model Initialization

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:29:01 GMT

Entity Developer's diagram view and class editor windows.

New version lets you specify string properties that are mapped to columns of unicode data.

Entity Developer lets you create and edit Entity Framework, LinqConnect, NHibernate and LINQ to SQL models visually. You can use either Model-First or Database-First approaches to design your models and generate C# or Visual Basic .NET code. Entity Developer introduces approaches for designing ORM models, boosting productivity and facilitating the development of database applications.

Updates in V5.5

MVC Controller and MVC View - New templates designed for generating an ASP.NET MVC Controller and View.
Data Annotations Metadata - Generate data annotations for metadata classes.
Data Transfer Objects - New template designed for generating Data Transfer Object (DTO) classes.
Model First Improvements - Define a set of properties that will be present in all new entities.
Model Initialization - Model initialization settings allow you to specify string properties mapped to columns of unicode data.
Attributes - Edit attributes for several selected entities or properties at once.

About Devart

Devart is a leading company working in the database connectivity area. They offer well-known native VCL/CLX components and dbExpress drivers for direct access to Oracle, MS SQL Server and MySQL. They provide advanced data access solutions for ADO.NET data providers for native connectivity to Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL database servers. Devart is also a vendor of powerful database tools designed to automate and simplify database development processes.

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Entity Developer V4.1.55 released

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:47:29 GMT

Entity Developer's diagram view and class editor windows.

New skins improve application appearance, selection driven highlighting plus export diagrams to image files.

Entity Developer lets you create and edit Entity Framework, LinqConnect, NHibernate, and LINQ to SQL models visually. You can use either Model-First or Database-First approaches to design your models and generate C# or Visual Basic .NET code from them. Entity Developer introduces approaches for designing ORM models, boosting productivity, and facilitating the development of database applications.

Updates in V4.1.55

New skins to improve application appearance
Selection driven highlighting implemented
Change shape color for entities, complex types and enums
Select diagram skin type
The possibility to export the diagram into an image file is added
The pluralization algorithm is improved when Naming rules are defined
Support for enumerated types ("enums") implemented
Support for spatial data-types for Geography and Geometry - (Entity Framework only)
Import selected stored procedures into context models - (Entity Framework only)
Table-Valued Functions support - (Entity Framework only)

About Devart

Devart (formerly Core Lab) is a leading company working in the database connectivity area. They offer well-known native VCL/CLX components and dbExpress drivers for direct access to Oracle, MS SQL Server and MySQL. Provide advanced data access solutions for the Microsoft .NET Framework - ADO.NET data providers for native connectivity to Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL database servers.

Active Query Builder for .NET updated

Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:16:39 GMT

Visually building a query for a SQL Server database.

Active Query Builder for .NET is a visual query builder component suite that allows your end-users to build complex SQL queries with unions and sub queries via an intuitive visual interface. Active Query Builder .NET Edition supports Visual Studio 2005 and 2008, Windows.Forms environment (100% Managed Code, No direct Win32 interop calls). The Active Query Builder ASP.NET Edition is designed for ASP.NET 2.0 environment, it provides a native and easy way to embed visual query building functionality into your ASP.NET projects. Active Query Builder ASP.NET Edition is based on Active Query Builder .NET (Windows Forms) Edition. Utilizing the same powerful SQL parsing engine, it's end-user Web interface has much in common with the ancestor.

Updates in v1.15

Behavior changes

The Select checkbox is checked automatically now on adding a new expression.
Grouping is set automatically now on specifying the aggregate for a column now.
The numbers entered into condition for string fields are treated as literals.
The "=TRUE" condition is set automatically on adding a logical expression now. Useful on adding the EXISTS expressions.
Automatic alias assignment is made when user adds two or more columns with same name to the query. The warning message is shown when multiple columns with same name appear in sub-queries in result of user actions as this may lead to inconsistence in the calling sub-query.
The new UserMessage event is added. It is fired when the Query Builder is about to show the warning message to the user. You may override this behavior by handling this event.

SQL Syntax changes

SQLite: The component can load foreign keys now.
SQLite: The list of aggregates and built-in functions is filled now.
MS SQL Server: Fetching metadata object descriptions from database is made.
MySQL Query Properties form is redesigned.
MySQL: The SELECT [DISTINCT|ALL] options are added to the query properties dialog.

WinForms .NET Edition specific changes:

Arabic (Saudi Arabia), Swedish and Turkish translations are added; Spanish and Polish translations are updated
Algorithm of automatic objects placement on the diagram pane is improved
Memory consumption and performance optimizations are made, memory leaks are eliminated

About Active Database Software

Active Database Software, Ltd. is a privately owned software development company. Established in 2005, Active Database Software offers solutions for professional database developers especially designed to make software development easier, faster and more effective. The company aims to provide technologies that save development time by combining powerful capabilities with unmatched ease-of-use.

Active Query Builder adds translations

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:30:00 GMT

Visually building a query for a SQL Server database.

.NET Edition V1.14.X adds Arabic, French, Italian, Spanish and Swedish, plus improved recursive CTE processing.

Updates in V1.14.X

Updates in ActiveQuery Builder for .NET V1.14.1.261

Fixed parsing of derived tables without alias.
Fixed parsing of joins with parentheses.

Updates in ActiveQuery Builder for .NET V1.14.1.259

Arabic (Saudi Arabia) [ar-sa] translation is added.
Swedish [sv] translation is added.
Bug with nested NOT expressions is fixed.

Updates in ActiveQuery Builder for .NET V1.14.0.258

Recursive CTE processing is improved.

Updates in ActiveQuery Builder for .NET V1.14.0.257

MySQL: CONVERT function is fixed.
PlainTextSQLBuilder formatting properties are correctly expanded now (in designer).

Updates in ActiveQuery Builder for .NET V1.14.0.256

SqlTextEditor: Fixed exception when the suggestion window is visible on the control disposing.
MetadataEditor: Fixed exception when creating foreign keys with drag and drop.
Missing strings for "Collapse" and "Expand" commands are added into en.xml translation template file.
Source code examples are updated for compatibility with Visual Studio 2008 and 2010.

Updates in ActiveQuery Builder for .NET V1.14.0.255

ToolboxManager slightly improved (will hasten installation a bit).
de, es, fr, it, pt-br translations updated.
DevExpress dependencies of ActiveDatabaseSoftware.DevExpressControlFactory.dll are updated to v10.2.3.0.
SqlTextEditor and ExpressionEditor: syntax coloring properties goes public.
Server version auto-detection is implemented.
Renaming of common table expressions (CTE) is implemented.
MetadataEditor: adding and editing of virtual objects and fields are implemented.
Images on tabs are implemented. To hide images use ShowTabIcons property.
To set custom images use TabsImageList property (must contain 4 images: main query, sub-query, derived table, common table expression (CTE)).
Oracle: loading of materialized views is fixed.
SqlTextEditor: fixed AVG function highlighting for MS Access syntax.
Firebird: DateAdd, DateDiff, Overlay, Position builtin functions are fixed.
MS Access: problem with '$' char in builtin function names is fixed.
Automatic alias generation is fixed.

About Active Database Software

Active Database Software, Ltd. is a privately owned software development company. Established in 2005, Active Database Software offers solutions for professional database developers especially designed to make software development easier, faster and more effective. The company puts a lot of effort in to provide technologies which save development time by combining powerful capabilities with unmatched ease-of-use.

Active Query Builder adds subscription

Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:30:00 GMT

Visually building a query for a SQL Server database.

Professional Subscription includes WinForms and ASP.NET editions, plus advanced SQL text editor and expression editor.

Active Query Builder for .NET is a visual SQL query builder component that allows your end-users to build complex SQL queries via an intuitive visual query building interface easily. Active Query Builder is also a SQL parser that can analyze and modify SQL queries programmatically. It can be embedded into a database administration tool or a user report generator, in a Windows application or Web page. Its user-friendly interface and unique query parsing and research capabilities provide optimized results and is sure to increase the number of potential users of your product.

Unlike the Standard Subscriptions that provide access to specific versions of Active Query Builder, the .NET Professional Subscription lets you to receive all future versions of Active Query Builder and other components for the .NET Framework. Active Query Builder .NET Professional Subscription currently includes:

Active Query Builder WinForms .NET Edition
Active Query Builder ASP.NET Edition
Advanced SQL Text Editor for WinForms .NET Edition
Advanced Expression Editor for WinForms .NET Edition
DevExpress controls User Interface for WinForms .NET Edition
Optional: Full Source Code

Updates in V1.13

Added - Oracle: global pipelined functions can be used in FROM clause.
Added - Professional edition of the component suite is introduced.
Added - New ExpressionEditor component available in the Professional edition only.
Added - New improved Metadata Editor (in all editions).
Improved - DevExpress dependencies of ActiveDatabaseSoftware.DevExpressControlFactory.dll are updated to v10.1.4.0.
Improved - OracleNativeMetadataProvider: Oracle.DataAccess.dll references updated to the latest version (v2.111.7.20).
Fixed - Expression Editor: exception when trying to insert a function using the context menu is fixed.
Fixed - Expression Editor: items in the function list were duplicating sometimes.

About Active Database Software

Active Database Software, Ltd. is a privately owned software development company. Established in 2005, Active Database Software offers solutions for professional database developers especially designed to make software development easier, faster and more effective. The company puts a lot of effort in to provide technologies which save development time by combining powerful capabilities with unmatched ease-of-use.

Programmatically synchronize databases

Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:56:00 GMT

Using the Extract Method with ApexSQL Diff API.

ApexSQL Diff API allows you to use the ApexSQL comparison and synchronization engine in your own applications.

ApexSQL Diff API is a programmable API that allows you to use ApexSQL Diff's and ApexSQL Data Diff's comparison and synchronization engine in your own applications. ApexSQL Diff API offers full programmatic access to our comparison tool engine API, incorporate database compare and sync functionality into your own custom applications, integrate our compare algorithms into your automated build process and other internal systems, includes full working example and complete object model documentation. ApexSQL Diff API can be used with any .NET language.

Features

Full API access to ApexSQL Diff's comparison and synchronization engine
Create programs to schedule or automate comparison and synchronization
Use ApexSQL Diff's comparison and synchronization capabilities in your own apps
Compare and synchronize both schema and data
Compare and synchronize live database schemas for different SQL Server versions
Create and compare Offline Database snapshots

About ApexSQL

ApexSQL LLC is a leading provider of value added software tools for Microsoft SQL Server. The company has a simple goal - be the best company for acquiring and retaining customers of SQL Server Tools in the world. It looks to accomplish this by dedicating itself completely to the customer via rapid response to service, support and sales requests and customer friendly policies. ApexSQL is so committed to support it has created a Support Engineers Creed. The company strives to deliver the maximum amount of functionality and features to the customer in the spirit of Microsoft Software Development and to be incredibly responsive to feature requests from users. ApexSQL has a singular commitment to develop and design the best SQL Tools in the world in terms of feature set, performance and quality. The company is privately held and is based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Active Query Builder .NET updated

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:06:00 GMT

Visually building a query for a SQL Server database.

Latest release adds support for VistaDB 4.0 and includes Brazilian Portuguese translation.

Active Query Builder .NET Edition is a visual query builder component suite that allows your end-users to build complex SQL queries with unions and sub queries via an intuitive visual interface. Active Query Builder .NET Edition supports Visual Studio 2005, Windows.Forms environment (100% Managed Code, No direct Win32 interop calls).

The following editions are also available:

Updates in V1.11

Support VistaDB 4.0 is implemented
Portuguese (Brazil) translation is added
SQLite: The query properties form is implemented, Ability to fetch metadata from "attached" databases is added
Oracle: Retrieval of descriptions for objects and fields from the database is implemented
The LIKE criteria parsing is improved. Manually entered criteria like "LIKE John Doe" will be distinguished as "LIKE 'John Doe'"
Basic support for custom aggregate functions is implemented
MS SQL Server: Custom aggregate functions retrieval is made
MS SQL Server: Parsing of DatePart, DateName, DateDiff, DateAdd functions is fixed
MS SQL Server: Fixed parsing of fields with names matching datatype names, like "DateTime"
Oracle: Parsing of the SEED keyword is fixed
Oracle: Parsing of "CONNECT BY" and "START WITH" clauses sequence is fixed
Oracle and PostgreSQL: interval literals support is added
Firebird: List of reserved words is imported into the grammar
The INNER keyword can be omitted now in join specifications for Firebird and MS SQL Server via the InnerKeywordInLinks property
SQL dialects without databases support (like Oracle) didn't skip default schema from object names. Fixed now
Unambiguous reading metadata from XML generated by other AQB Editions (VCL/ActiveX, Java) is made
CROSS JOIN processing bug is fixed
New properties in the QueryBuilder and PlainTextSQLBuilder components: AsKeywordInExpressionAlias and AsKeywordInObjectAlias. You can use them to force the query builder to always show or omit AS keyword before aliases
The new events DatasourceFieldRemoving, DatasourceFieldRemoved are added to control removal of fields by unchecking them from the datasource field list
The new properties are made to control case sensitivity of metadata filter items: MetadataFilterItem.SchemaMaskCaseSensitive and MetadataFilterItem.ObjectMaskCaseSensitive
The new property is added to create aliases automatically based on alternate names: SelectListOptions.CreateColumnAliasesFromAltNames
API changes: MetadataFieldNameList class is renamed to MetadataQualifiedNameList