LinqConnect

Designed to provide you with advanced connectivity between LINQ and SQL databases, LinqConnect is an performance-orientated library for object-relational mapping that offers support for a wide array of server types.

This said, we should mention right from the get-go that this utility is fully compatible with SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

With the help of LinqConnect, you can easily store, retrieve of act on data contained by databases or .NET Framework 3.5 or higher, Metro, Silverlight 4 and higher or Windows Phone 7 and 8 applications that comes with support for Code-First, Model-First or Database-First approach.

It is worth mentioning that LinkConnect also comes with a visual model designer called Entity Developer. With the help of this model designer and its intuitive wizards, you can create models of databases.

Also worthy of your attention is LinqConnect's support for Microsoft technologies. This said, with the help of this ORM solution, you can provide data access for applications that feature Windows Forms, ASP.NET WebForms, WCF RIA Services, Dynamic Data, WPF and other applications.

When it comes to mapping cases, it is safe to say that LinqConnect has all basis covered, with support for complex mapping types, many-to-many associations and TPT and TPH inheritances.

In order to boost performance, LinqConnect makes use of a compiled query cache feature. It comes with support for extension methods, subqueries, PLINQ, aggregate functions, and query level preload, just to name a few.