Entity Developer Releases

• Added support for dotConnect for Google BigQuery.
• Added support for dotConnect for MongoDB.
• Changed the .NET Framework requirement for Entity Developer to version 4.7.2 and removed the .NET Framework 3.5 edition.

Entity Framework support

• Added support for Entity Framework Core 11 and .NET 11.
• Added support for mapping complex types using the Entity Framework Core ComplexProperty API, where the Complex Type Mapping setting in Model Settings and the Mapping property of a complex type determine whether the type is generated using ComplexProperty or OwnsOne; new models use ComplexProperty by default, while existing models retain OwnsOne.
• Added support for SQL Server temporal tables, including recognition of system-versioned tables with their period columns and history tables in Update From Database and creating, modifying, and dropping them in Generate Database Script and Update To Database.
• Added the Create Foreign Key Constraint association property to define relationships without creating foreign key constraints in the database.
• Added the Target Server page to Model Settings to retrieve the server version from the connection or specify it manually.
• Added the UseCompatibilityLevel() call to generated code for SQL Server with Entity Framework Core 8 and later, based on the model's target server.
• Added support for the Implement Cloneable and Generate Data Contracts options for complex types in Entity Framework Core models.
• Added .NET 11 to the list of available Target Framework versions in Model Settings for Entity Framework 6 models.

LinqConnect support

• Added .NET 11 to the list of available Target Framework versions in Model Settings for LinqConnect models.

• Fixed an issue that caused the 'Invalid cast from System.String to System.Guid' and similar errors when using Retrieve Data with tables containing Guid, TimeSpan, double, float, DateTimeOffset, and SQL Server spatial and hierarchyid columns.
• Fixed an issue that caused foreign keys in PostgreSQL tables with dropped columns to be mapped to incorrect columns.
• Fixed an issue that caused Entity Developer in Visual Studio to interfere with other extensions by loading incompatible assemblies.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Validate-Model command in the console version to always report models as valid.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Enum Type editor from displaying or editing the namespace of an enum.
• Fixed an issue that caused the installer to keep outdated versions of some Entity Developer assemblies when installing over a previous version.
• Fixed an issue that caused previous versions of Entity Developer to remain installed after installing a new version.

Entity Framework support

• Fixed an issue that prevented the latest server versions, such as SQL Server 2025 and Oracle 26ai, from appearing in the list of target servers or being recognized correctly.
• Fixed an issue that prevented Entity Framework Core 5 and later from appearing in the list of available versions in Model Properties for models using the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient provider.

Entity Framework support

• Fixed an issue where Update From Database left an empty complex type mapping and the DbContext template generated an empty OwnsOne(...) call in EF Core models.

• Improved the 'Update Model From Database' wizard for SQL Server: the 'Choose schemas' step is now skipped if only one schema is available.
• Changed the behavior: The Add Item wizard now installs the latest version of the Devart.Data.*.Linq NuGet package.

• Fixed an issue with reading DateTime, DBNull, and complex type values using the Retrieve Data feature.
• Fixed an issue where computed columns were flagged as dropped and added when updating a model.
• Fixed an issue with private setters generated for multiple result set collections.
• Fixed an issue where Entity Developer was switched to the Express edition after a perpetual license expired.
• Fixed an issue where an expired perpetual license was considered invalid in the Visual Studio UI.

• Added support for non-admin users. Entity Developer can now run without administrator privileges.
• Added support for Microsoft Entra authentication methods in SQL Server.
• Added the Show System Tables option under Servers' Options -> SQL Server. The option is disabled by default. When the option is enabled, database objects from system tables are retrieved.
• Improved the connection UI for SQL Server.
• Significantly increased the metadata retrieval timeout in the Create Model, Update From Database, and Update To Database wizards for SQL Server.

• Fixed an issue with silent diagram regeneration for damaged models.

Entity Framework support

• Fixed an issue with incorrect quoting of the NOW() function specified as the Default Value in the Column Editor that occurred when using Generate Database Script or the Update To Database Wizard in EF Core models for MySQL.

• Fixed an issue with files not being removed during uninstall and not being updated during reinstall.

• Added support for Server-to-Server authentication in Salesforce.

• Fixed an issue with displaying Unicode characters during installation.

Entity Framework support

• Fixed an issue with one-to-one associations in EF Core models in the Update Model From Database wizard.
• Fixed an issue with the View Generation in Entity Framework 6 models.

• Fixed an issue with generating complex types for stored procedures.
• Fixed an issue with searching by model in the Find dialog.
• Fixed an issue with protocol selection in the Connection Editor for MySQL and MariaDB connections in dotConnect for MySQL.
• Fixed an issue with the Schema option in the Create Model Wizard for PostgreSQL connections in the Npgsql provider.

Entity Framework support

• Fixed an issue with code generation for one-to-one associations in EF Core models.

• Added full-featured support for modern .NET (.NET Core/.NET) versions of the ADO.NET providers.
• Added support for SQL Server 2025.
• Added support for Oracle Database 26ai.
• Added the Service Name parameter to the Oracle connection dialog.
• Added Japan, Saudi Arabia, and UK data centers to the Zoho CRM connection dialog.
• Improved performance of the Update Model From Database wizard for PostgreSQL 17 and later.

Entity Framework support

• Added support for Entity Framework Core 10.

• Fixed an issue where the Update From Database wizard incorrectly detected foreign key changes in Table-per-Type (TPT) inheritance.
• Fixed a NullReferenceException in the Update Database From Model wizard.
• Fixed an issue where nullable DateOnly and TimeOnly primitive properties were generated incorrectly when Nullable Reference Types was set to Enable in the template options.
• Fixed an issue with mapping the Oracle BOOLEAN data type in Oracle Database 23ai.
• Fixed an issue where the Update Model From Database wizard naming rules handled the Turkish dotted İ incorrectly in column names.
• Fixed an issue where Visual Studio could display the error "The operation was canceled".
• Fixed an issue with installation when using the /NOICONS flag.
• Fixed an issue with licensing.

Entity Framework support

• Fixed an issue with DTO classes when an EF Core entity property had Shadow = true.
• Fixed an issue with generating default values for class properties in EF6 models.
• Fixed an issue where nullable navigation properties were generated incorrectly in EF Core models when Nullable Reference Types was set to Enable in template options.
• Fixed an issue in the VB.NET template where private property setters were generated incorrectly for EF Core models when Private setter for store generated properties was set to True.
• Fixed an issue where using an enum as a primary key in EF Core models could throw the error "Specified cast is not valid".

LinqConnect support

• Fixed an issue where the Create Model wizard in .NET Core projects with LinqConnect models could fail with the error "The reference 'Devart.Data.Linq' could not be added to the project".

NHibernate support

• Fixed an issue with model validation for composite keys in NHibernate models.