Entity Developer was designed to be a powerful modeling and code generation application for ADO.NET Entity Framework, NHibernate, and LINQ to SQL. You can use Model-First and Database-First approaches to design your model and generate C# or Visual Basic .NET code for it.
It introduces new approaches for designing ORM models, boosts productivity, and facilitates the development of database applications. Entity Developer Express for SQL Server is a free limited version of Entity Developer for SQL Server. The Express Edition does not allow customization of code templates and is limited to 10 entities in the project.
Visual ORM Model Designer with Code Generation Entity Developer allows you to create and edit Entity Framework, NHibernate, and LINQ to SQL models visually, without typing a line of XML code. It supports editing storage part in GUI and creating all kinds of mapping, such as table splitting, mapping entity to several tables, complex types, inheritance hierarchies, creating entities from SELECT statements and methods from SQL code, etc.
Code generation is very flexible due to using T4-like templates. Integration to Visual Studio Entity Developer seamlessly integrates with Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. You may edit your Entity Developer models as Visual Studio documents, in the same way as EDM models.
Model-First Approach Model First approach implementation in Entity Developer offers automatic synchronization of mapping and storage part with the conceptual part of the model and easy to use wizards for synchronizing database with the model.
Updating Model from Database Entity Developer for SQL Server provides possibility to synchronize your entity model with database with the help of Update from Database Wizard. It tries to preserve manual changes to the model where possible. Data Viewing/Editing Entity Developer allows executing HQL, LINQ, or Entity SQL queries against the model, and viewing/editing data.
NOTE: The Express Edition does not allow customization of code templates and is limited to 10 entities in the project
Here are some key features of "Entity Developer for SQL Server Express Edition":
· LINQ to SQL support
· Entity Framework support
· NHibernate support
· Visual schema modelling
· Reverse engineering
· Predefined templates
· SQL Server support
· Third-party ADO.NET provider support
Requirements:
· .NET Framework 3.5
· SQL Server Express Edition
· Visual Studio 2008
· dotConnect for MySQL 5.00 or higher
· dotConnect for Oracle 5.00 or higher
· dotConnect for PostgreSQL 4.00 or higher
· dotConnect for SQLite 2.00 or higher
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· Visual Studio 11 Beta is supported
· The copy/cut/paste functionality is added for objects of the conceptual part of a model
· The possibility to drag&drop properties between classes in Model Explorer is implemented
· The "HeaderTimestampVersionControlTag" generation template option is added for improving integration with version-control systems
· The bug with retrieving database metadata on Windows Azure is fixed
· The bug with generating mappings for many-to-many association of entity to itself is fixed
NHibernate support:
· The merging of crossing foreign key columns in Table Per Hierarchy (TPH) when generating schema is added
· The merging of crossing columns in Table Per Hierarchy (TPH) when generating schema is added
· The warnings if merging of crossing columns in Table Per Hierarchy (TPH) when generating schema cannot be done correctly is added
· The new "Unimplemented" extended property, which allows disabling code generation, is added for navigation properties ...
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