dotConnect for PostgreSQL Features

• Advanced Visual Studio Integration - dotConnect for PostgreSQL provides a vast number of GUI tools that increase your productivity. For example, it includes DataSet tools, such as DataSet Wizard, DataSet Editor, DataSet Manager, provide you an easy way to create and edit typed and untyped DataSets. PostgreSQL ADO.NET Provider supports advanced Visual Studio integration (DDEX), and provides convenient visual component editors to simplify component tweaking.
• Broad Compatibility - dotConnect for PostgreSQL supports .NET Core and Entity Framework Core, and supports new platforms and development technologies as soon as they are released.
• Enhanced ORM Support - dotConnect for PostgreSQL offers enhanced ORM support with a bundled visual designer for ORM models - Entity Developer. Our PostgreSQL ADO.NET Provider supports the following ORMs:
  • Entity Framework v1 - v6
  • Entity Framework Core 1.x, 2.x, and 3.0
  • NHibernate
  • LinqConnect
• ASP.NET - Implements Role, Session State, Membership, Profile, Site Map, and other ASP providers.
• Performance - Uses many PostgreSQL-specific performance features & optimizations to ensure the highest performance.
• BIS - Enables Integration Services to export and import data to/from PostgreSQL servers.
• Monitoring - Allows per-component tracing of database events with a free dbMonitor application.
• Security - Supports various encryption ciphers, SSL and SSH connections, GSSAPI or SSPI, etc.

The Standard Edition represents a fully-featured ADO.NET data provider with design time support and advanced classes.

The Professional Edition adds more classes, tools, technologies, and integration capabilities.

The Mobile Edition is equivalent to the Standard Edition for .NET Compact Framework.