Entity Developer Releases

Released: Jul 8, 2021

Updates in V6.11.1283

Features

  • Added support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 Preview 2.0.
  • The behavior of the Regenerate Storage and Mapping functionality in Entity Framework Core, NHibernate and Telerik Data Access models has been changed: the NOT NULL attribute of the column is now reset to undefined; after that, the behavior depends on the Nullable attribute of the class property only.

Fixes

  • The bug with throwing "Index was outside the bounds of the array" by Create Model Wizard/Update From Database...

Released: Jun 3, 2021

Updates in V6.11.1258

Features

  • Type E schemas (External Login from Microsoft Azure Active Directory) are now supported in Create Model Wizard/Update From Database/Update To Database (Microsoft SQL Server).
  • Added the ability to detect GENERATED ALWAYS AS ROW START and GENERATED ALWAYS AS ROW END columns in SQL Server 2016 and higher in Create Model Wizard/Update From Database Wizard.

Entity Framework support

  • New extended property "Use Generic DbContextOptions Constructor Argument" has been added to model Entity...

Released: Apr 9, 2021

Updates in V6.11.1219

Features

  • Added new Alt+E hotkey in Property Editor for opening Column Editor in Entity Framework Core Model, NHibernate Model and Telerik Data Access Model.

Fixes

  • Fixed bug with adding tables to a model by Create Model Wizard, when the Database connection string parameter is not set (MySQL/MariaDB).
  • Fixed bug with throwing "bufferAdapter is not a VsTextDocData" when saving a model in .NET Core, .NET Standard, .NET 5, .NET 6 projects of Visual Studio 2019.

Entity Framework support

  • Fixed bug with...

Released: Apr 1, 2021

Updates in V6.11.1213

Features

  • Added support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.10 Preview.
  • Added the ability to ignore warnings during code generation.
  • Data Transfer Object template has been improved:
    • New Serialization Library property has been added for specifying the library used for serialization.
    • The extended property "Do Not Serialize" has been added to exclude properties and navigation properties from serialization.
    • The extended property "Serialization Name" has been added to set custom names for...

Released: Feb 18, 2021

Updates in V6.10.1189

Features

Entity Framework support

  • 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 without PK.
  • Improved C# code generation: the using directives are generated instead of full namespaces in the names of attributes for DataAnnotations, NHibernate Validator and Enterprise...

Released: Jan 14, 2021

Updates in V6.10.1165

Features

  • 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.

Entity Framework support

  • IPAddress and PhysicalAddress data types are now supported in Entity Framework Core Model (Npgsql).
  • Added new extended model property Base Context Type for specifying a parent class for the generated context in Entity Framework Core...

Released: Dec 17, 2020

Updates in V6.10.1145

Features

  • Added compatibility with dotConnect providers.

Released: Dec 3, 2020

Updates in V6.10.1135

Features

  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 Preview is now supported.

Entity Framework support

  • Microsoft Entity Framework Core 5.0 is now supported.
  • 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 HierarchyId data type is now supported via EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer...

Released: Oct 29, 2020

Updates in V6.9.1112

Features

  • Added support for PostgreSQL 13.
  • Added support for type A schemas (Application role) in Create Model Wizard/Update From Database/Update To Database (Microsoft SQL Server).

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 reading templates from *.edps by console Entity Developer has been fixed.

Released: Oct 1, 2020

Updates in V6.9.1092

Features

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

Entity Framework support

  • 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 (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite).
  • Updated default mapping for spatial data types in Server's Options (MySQL, SQLite).

Fixes

  • Fixed bug reading settings from *.edps by console Entity...