Released: Oct 21, 2021

Updates in V5.18.2001

Features

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Preview support has been discontinued.

Entity Framework support

• Added support for Entity Framework Core 5.0.11.
• Added support for Entity Framework Core 3.1.20.
• The Code-First Migration operations RenameColumn (SQLite 3.25 and above) and DropColumn (SQLite 3.35 and above) are now natively supported in Entity Framework 4/5/6 and Entity Framework Core 1/2/3/5.
• The implementation of config.CodeFirstOptions.TruncateLongDefaultNames in Entity Framework 6 Microsoft...

Released: Sep 28, 2021

Updates in V5.18.1985

Features

Entity Developer

• Added new Validation Framework property to the Data Transfer Object template for generating DataAnnotation attributes.
• Added new "Save connection to" option to Entity Framework Core Model Settings which adds the ability to store the connection string in "Model file", "Entity Developer storage" and "Environment variable".
• Added new "Enum Output" option to the Entity Framework Core template to specify the output for generated enums.
• Added new property "Generate UnitOfWork...

Released: Jul 8, 2021

Updates in V5.17.1930

Features

• Added support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 Preview 2.0.
• Updated the sqlite3.dll library that is included in the installation package to version 3.36.0.

Released: Apr 1, 2021

Updates in V5.17.1860

Features

• Added support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.10 Preview.
• The sqlite3.dll library that is included into the installation package has been updated to version 3.35.3.

Fixes

• Fixed the bug with reading System.Byte[] instead of actual values of CHAR columns via SQLiteDataReader.

Released: Feb 18, 2021

Updates in V5.17.1836

Features

• The sqlite3.dll library that is included in the installation package has been updated to version 3.34.1.
• Added a new command line option /disablegac that disables adding assemblies to GAC.

Entity Developer

• Changed the behavior of Entity Developer embedded into Microsoft Visual Studio: lower versions in the Entity Framework Core version property of Model Settings are not hidden any more.
• Changed the behavior in Entity Framework Core Model: QueryType=True is now set for all classes...

Released: Jan 14, 2021

Updates in V5.17.1812

Features

Entity Developer

• Added new attribute DisplayName for model objects' extended properties which are available via template properties.
• Added new options --ContextNamespace and --DefaultNamespace to the Create-Model command of Console Entity Developer.
• Added new extended model property Base Context Type for specifying a parent class for the generated context in Entity Framework Core Model.
• Added new extended properties Base Type for complex types and Base Complex Type for model in Entity...

Released: Dec 17, 2020

Updates in V5.17.1792

Features

Entity Framework support

• Added support for Entity Framework Core 5.0.1.

Fixes

Entity Framework support

• Fixed the bug with creating savepoints in Entity Framework Core 5.

Released: Dec 3, 2020

Updates in V5.17.1782

Features

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 Preview is now supported.
• The sqlite3.dll library that is included into the installation package has now been updated to version 3.34.0.

Entity Developer

• These new features are now supported in Entity Framework 5.0:
  • TPT inheritance.
  • Many-to-many associations.
  • New types of properties: IPAddress and PhysicalAddress.
• The Model Refactoring functionality is now supported for classes in Entity Framework Core Model.
• The behavior has changed in a...

Released: Oct 29, 2020

Updates in V5.16.1759

Features

Entity Framework support

• Added support for Entity Framework Core 3.1.9.

Fixes

• The bug with Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 integration, when both v16.7 RTM and v16.8 Preview are installed on the same computer has been fixed.
• The bug with missing Name and Owner properties of the SQLiteConnection class in Microsoft .NET Standard compliant assemblies has been fixed.

Entity Developer

• The bug with reading templates from *.edps by console Entity Developer has been fixed.

Entity Framework support...

Released: Oct 1, 2020

Updates in V5.16.1739

Features

• Added support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview.

Entity Developer

• Improved support for Entity Framework Core 3 spatial data types: In addition to Geometry and Geography, specific .NET NetTopologySuite types like GeographyPoint, GeographyLine are now available property types.
• Updated default mapping for spatial data types in Server's Options.

Fixes

Entity Developer

• Fixed bug "EntityProperty does not contain a definition for IsSpatialType", when custom template from...