Entity Developer

What's new in Entity Developer V4.2?

• New skins to improve application appearance
• Selection driven highlighting implemented
• Change shape color for entities, complex types and enums
• Select diagram skin type
• 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)

What's new in Entity Developer V3.50?

• LINQ to SQL: POCO template with XML mapping generation - template added
• Entity Framework: POCO template, Self-Tracking template, DbContext template with fluent mapping generation - template added
• Template usability has been improved
• The Template Editor has been significantly improved
• Ability to declare additional properties for model objects has been added
• Ability to specify .NET attributes for model objects has been added
• A "Preserve schema name in storage" option has been added
• A bug with procedures that differ only by name in the Database Explorer has been fixed (Entity Framework models)
• A bug with the "Access" combobox in the Association editor in LINQ to SQL models has been fixed

What's new in Entity Developer V2.80?

• Support for ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 added
• Support for multi-result set methods added
• Improved dialogs for editing model objects
• Full integration with Visual Studio implemented
• Added full support for ModificationFunctionMapping
• Improved Find in Model functionality
• Improved One-To-One associations handling

What's new in Entity Developer V2.50?

• New T4 like template engine with editor added
• Updated code generation
• Ability to generate separate files for classes added
• Entity Framework Pregenerated Views support added
• Improved null handling code generation
• Ability to execute LINQ and Entity SQL queries with data and native sql preview added
• Ability to preview and edit data displayed in Database Explorer added
• Table splitting added (emulation of deferred loading for "large" datatypes in EF)
• OnDelete support for associations added
• Corrected the setting of Source and Table attribute for non-database objects
• Fixed bug with attach_Entity methods
• Fixed bug with access and inheritance modifiers for properties
• Fixed bug with out-parameters of stored procedures
• Fixed bug with procedures returning nullable types
• Fixed bug with ProviderManifestToken

What's new in Entity Developer V2.20?

• Advanced mapping with Entity Framework QueryView now supported
• Displaying of Navigation properties on diagram and project explorer implemented
• Ability to change properties order added
• Ability to edit Referential constraints added
• Ability to set OnDelete action added
• Ability to set Rows Affected parameter added
• Added advanced search on the model
• Added support for SQL Server CE
• Added dialogs for suitable storage model editing
• Added support for storing connections in the configuration files
• Added Entity Set Pluralization Naming Rule
• Fixed bug with namespaces
• Fixed bug with invisible OK button in Association Editor
• Fixed bug with <edmx:*> tags
• Fixed bug with XML Comments serialization

Visual ORM Model Designer with Code Generation
Entity Developer allows you to create and edit Entity Framework, LinqConnect, NHibernate, and LINQ to SQL models visually, without typing a line of XML code. It supports creating all kinds of mapping, such as table splitting, mapping entity to several tables, complex types, inheritance hierarchies, creating entities from SELECT statements and methods from SQL code, etc. Code generation is very flexible due to using T4-like templates, allowing virtually anything you may want for code generation. C# and VB code can be generated for your model out-of-the-box, and you may even create your own templates for other programming languages.

Multiple ORM Support
Entity Developer supports Entity Framework 1 and 4, LinqConnect, NHibernate and LINQ to SQL models. Entity Developer for SQL Server uses standard Microsoft SqlClient, and intended for designing LINQ to SQL, and Entity Framework models. Entity Developer for dotConnect uses Devart dotConnect data providers. It allows you to design LinqConnect and Entity Framework models, and is available as a part of LinqConnect and Professional editions of dotConnects for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. Entity Developer for NHibernate allows designing NHibernate models using any ADO.NET providers, including dotConnects and Microsoft SqlClient.

Integration to Visual Studio
Entity Developer seamlessly integrates with Visual Studio. You may edit your Entity Developer models as Visual Studio documents, in the same way as EDM models. Entity Developer toolbars and tool windows behave as native Visual Studio toolbars and toolwindows, all Entity Developer functionality is available from Visual Studio menu. However, Entity Developer can be used as a stand-alone application, and it does not require Visual Studio to function.

Features

• Model First and Database First - Use any approach in your development - Model-First or Database-First.
• Optimized Work with Large Models - Entity Developer provides optimized performance and convenient work with large models on all stages of development.
• Data Viewing/Editing - Entity Developer allows executing LINQ or ESQL queries against the model, and view/edit data.
• Model Validation - Entity Developer checks your model for errors asynchro­nous­ly while you edit it.
• Code Generation - Code generation is very flexible due to using T4-like templates, allowing virtually anything you may want for code generation.

Entity Developer Professional Edition Features

• LINQ to SQL support
• Entity Framework support
• NHibernate support
• Visual schema modelling
• Reverse engineering
• Predefined templates
• Custom templates
• SQL Server support
• Third-party ADO.NET provider support
• Unlimited number of entities in model

Entity Developer NHibernate Edition Features

• NHibernate support
• Visual schema modelling
• Reverse engineering
• Predefined templates
• Custom templates
• SQL Server support
• Third-party ADO.NET provider support
• Unlimited number of entities in model

Entity Developer Entity Framework Edition Features

• Entity Framework support
• Visual schema modelling
• Reverse engineering
• Predefined templates
• Custom templates
• SQL Server support
• Third-party ADO.NET provider support
• Unlimited number of entities in model

Entity Developer LINQ to SQL Edition Features

• LINQ to SQL support
• Visual schema modelling
• Reverse engineering
• Predefined templates
• Custom templates
• SQL Server support
• Third-party ADO.NET provider support
• Unlimited number of entities in model