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Entity Developer Professional Edition Changelog

What's new in Entity Developer Professional Edition 7.2.10

Jan 19, 2024
  • Visual Studio 2022 version 17.9 Preview is supported
  • The new option "Show System Schemas" (by default, False) is added to Servers' Options -> SQL Server. If the "Show System Schemas" check box is selected, database objects from system schemas will be retrieved (SQL Server)
  • The new option "Retrieve Cross Schema Relations" (by default, True) is added to Servers' Options -> SQL Server. If the "Retrieve Cross Schema Relations" check box is selected, foreign keys from different schemas will be retrieved. This can take much time (SQL Server)
  • The bug with detecting numeric and string literals, specified within round brackets, when generating initialization of properties basing on Oracle columns' default values in EF, EF Core, NHibernate models is fixed (ODP.NET)
  • The hang of Visual Studio 2022 when saving the model is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • Entity Framework Core 8 is supported
  • .NET 8 is added to the list of available Target Framework versions in Create Model Wizard and Model Settings in EF and EF Core models
  • The new extended property Do Not Generate OnConfiguring Method is added for the model in EF Core Model
  • The bug with unnecessary generation of the GetByKey() method in a repository for entities without primary key (QueryType=True) in EF Core is fixed
  • The bug with wrongly turned on without the ability to turn off options "Detect Many-to-Many associations" and "Detect Table-Per-Type inheritances" in Model Settings of EF Core 1, 2, 3 models is fixed
  • The bug with the availability of the "Table-Per-Type Hierarchy (TPT)" option in the "Model Refactoring" dialog of EF Core 1, 2, 3 models is fixed
  • The bug with the availability of the "Table-Per-Concrete-Type Hierarchy (TPC)" option in the "Model Refactoring" dialog of EF Core 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 models is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 7.1.177 (Nov 17, 2023)

  • Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 Preview is supported
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with wrong quotation of the following keywords specified in Default Value of Column Editor by Generate Database Script / Update To Database Wizard in EF Core is fixed: SYSDATE, SYSTIMESTAMP, CURRENT_DATE, SYS_EXTRACT_UTC(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP), SYS_EXTRACT_UTC(SYSTIMESTAMP) (Oracle)
  • The bug with detecting TINYINT(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 1 as function-based column default value in EF Core Model is fixed (MySQL)
  • The bug with detecting NUMBER(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 1 as function-based column default value in EF Core Model is fixed (Oracle)
  • The bug with detecting the numeric default value of string columns as function-based column default value in EF Core Model is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 7.1.151 (Jun 6, 2023)

  • Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7 Preview is supported
  • The bug when mapping PostgreSQL inet and macaddr types in EF Core Model is fixed (Npgsql)
  • The bug "Custom tool error: Object of type 'System.Int32' cannot be converted to type 'System.UInt32'" within saving Devart Entity Model is fixed
  • The behavior is changed: the primitive properties by default have Inheritance Modifier = None
  • The bug with the detection of non-existent changes while updating a model from a database is fixed
  • The bug with creating Devart Entity Model in Visual Studio 2022 is fixed
  • The bug with code generation for TPT inheritance in the EF Core template is fixed
  • The Temporal configuration section is added to class properties in EF Core 6 and higher models (SQL Server)
  • The Triggers configuration option is added to class properties in EF Core 7 models (SQL Server)
  • Retrieving metadata of table triggers by Create Model Wizard and Update From Database Wizard is supported in EF Core 7 models (SQL Server)
  • The bug with generating incorrect scale in mapping for decimal columns by the EF Core template (Visual Basic) in EF Core 5 and higher is fixed
  • The bug with generating incorrect quote sign for column names being reserved words in code, which reads result set returned by a procedure, by the EF Core template (C# and Visual Basic) is fixed (SQL Server)
  • The bug with missing model context namespace in EntityFrameworkUnitOfWork.cs produced by the Repository And Unit of Work template (C#) in EF Core is fixed
  • The bug with retrieving metadata of functions, procedures, packages in Oracle Server 8i/9i/10g by Create Model Wizard is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 7.1.134 (Mar 3, 2023)

  • Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 Preview is supported
  • Entity Framework support:
  • EF Core 7 is added to the list of available Entity Framework versions in Create Model Wizard and Model Settings in EF Core Model
  • .NET 7 is added to the list of available Target Framework versions in Create Model Wizard and Model Settings in EF Core Model
  • The new extended properties Do Not Generate Serializable Attribute and Do Not Serialize are added for complex types in EF Core Model
  • The bug with applying the Generate Serializable Attributes and Serialization Library settings of the EF Core template to the generated complex types is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 7.0.0 (Jul 1, 2022)

  • Windows 11 is supported.
  • Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2 is supported.
  • Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3 Preview is supported.
  • 64-bit version of standalone Entity Developer application is added.
  • 64-bit version of console Entity Developer application is added.
  • The behavior is changed: Entity Developer default installation path has changed from C:Program Files (x86)DevartEntity Developer to C:Program FilesDevartEntity Developer.

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.12.1419 (Jan 25, 2022)

  • Entity Framework support:
  • The behavior is changed: turning off the "Save connection to" option in Model Settings of EF Core Model wipes out connection string literal from the generated code

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.12.1395 (Dec 21, 2021)

  • The model validation is improved: the errors are generated for all entities with QueryType=True in EF Core Model when EF Core version=EF Core 1 in Model Settings
  • The bug with wrong automatic assigning QueryType=True for views added to EF Core Model, when EF Core version=EF Core 1 in Model Settings, is fixed
  • The bug with throwing System.NullReferenceException when saving the changed value of the "Save connection to" option in Model Settings of EF Core Model is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.12.1367 (Nov 9, 2021)

  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with missing .HasColumnType in the generated mapping of decimal class property, when Precision is specified but SQL Type is not set in Column Editor of EF Core 1/EF Core 2/EF Core 3 model and SQL Server as a target server, is fixed
  • The bug with parsing discriminator value as string, even when its type is different, in TPH inheritance of EF Core Model is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.12.1354 (Oct 21, 2021)

  • Visual Studio 2019 Preview support is discontinued
  • The bug with launching Entity Developer after applying Windows 10 Update KB5006670 and Windows 11 Update KB5006674 is fixed
  • Telerik Data Access support:
  • The bug with throwing NRE by the code generated with the Data Access template is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.12.1338 (Sep 28, 2021)

  • The new property Validation Framework is implemented in the Data Transfer Object template for generating DataAnnotations attributes
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The new option "Save connection to" is implemented in Model Settings of EF Core Model to provide the ability to store the connection string in "Model file", "Entity Developer storage", "Environment variable"
  • The new option "Enum Output" is added to the EF Core template to specify output for the generated enums
  • The new property Generate UnitOfWork Repository Properties (by default, True) is implemented in the Repository and Unit Of Work template of EF Core Model for accessing the collections of entities
  • The Uri data type is supported in EF Core Model
  • The DateOnly and TimeOnly data types are supported in EF Core 6 models (SQL Server, SQLite)
  • The representation of one-to-one association with non-nullable properties on both ends is changed from 1 -> 1 to 0..1 -> 1 on a diagram in EF Core Model
  • The behavior is changed: if Target Framework is set to .NET 5 in Model Settings of EF Core Model in Visual Studio, EF Core 6 is no longer available as an option of EF Core version
  • The bug throwing "Unknown property 'DoNotSerialize'.", when complex types and VB.NET template are used in EF Core Model, is fixed
  • The bug with code generation for the Constrained option of Association Editor in the case of 0..1 -> 1 association in EF Core Model is fixed
  • The bug with mapping NUMBER columns to .NET types in EF Core via Oracle.EntityFrameworkCore is fixed ("ODP.NET, Unmanaged Driver"/"ODP.NET, Managed Driver")

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.11.1297 (Jul 30, 2021)

  • Compatible with dotConnect providers

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.11.1283 (Jul 8, 2021)

  • Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 Preview 2.0 is supported
  • The behavior of the Regenerate Storage and Mapping functionality in EF Core, NHibernate, and Telerik Data Access models is changed: the NOT NULL attribute of the column is reset to undefined now; after that, the behavior depends on the Nullable attribute of the class property only
  • The bug with throwing "Index was outside the bounds of the array" by Create Model Wizard / Update From Database Wizard when retrieving metadata is fixed (SQL Server)
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with applying the Default Precision and Default Scale values from Model Settings to the non-decimal data types by Update To Database Wizard in EF Core is fixed
  • The bug with updating TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE, BOOLEAN, DOUBLE PRECISION, NUMERIC, CHARACTER(1) columns via Update To Database Wizard is fixed (PostgreSQL)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.11.1258 (Jun 3, 2021)

  • Schemas of type E (External Login from Azure Active Directory) are supported in Create Model Wizard / Update From Database / Update To Database (SQL Server)
  • Detection of GENERATED ALWAYS AS ROW START and GENERATED ALWAYS AS ROW END columns in SQL Server 2016 and higher by Create Model Wizard / Update From Database Wizard is implemented
  • The bug with creating app.config in Visual Studio .NET Framework projects, when the "Rewrite connection string during regeneration" option is turned off in Model Settings, is fixed
  • The bug with ignoring template's Validation Error Messages values in the generated code, when class property's Validate Expression is initialized and Validate Format is set to a non-default value, is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The new extended property Use Generic DbContextOptions Constructor Argument is added to model properties of EF Core Model
  • The new extended property Do Not Generate Constructor With DbContextOptions Argument is added to model properties of EF Core Model
  • EF Core 6 is added to the list of available values of the Entity Framework version property in Model Settings of EF Core Model for Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql
  • The bug with generating the Equals method for entities with Record Type=True by C# EF Core template is fixed
  • The bug with cleaning values of Length and Precision/Scale column's attributes by Update From Database Wizard in EF Core Model is fixed
  • The bug with detecting the datatype change from varchar / nvarchar to varchar(max) / nvarchar(max) by Update From Database Wizard in EF Core Model is fixed (SQL Server)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.11.1219 (Apr 9, 2021)

  • The new hotkey Alt+E is implemented in Property Editor for opening Column Editor in EF Core Model, NHibernate Model, Telerik Data Access Model
  • The bug with adding tables to a model by Create Model Wizard, when the Database connection string parameter is not set, is fixed (MySQL/MariaDB)
  • The 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 is fixed
  • The bug with missing .NET Framework, .NET Core 1, .NET Core 2 options for the Target Framework property in Model Settings of EF Core Model in a standalone Entity Developer is fixed
  • The bug with preserving Target Framework=.NET Framework in Model Settings of EF Core Model in a standalone Entity Developer is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.11.1213 (Apr 1, 2021)

  • Visual Studio 2019 version 16.10 Preview is supported
  • The new options "Don't show this message again" in the prompt window and "Prompt before generating code when there are model validation warnings" in the menu Options are implemented in a standalone Entity Developer to provide the ability not to stop code generation by warnings
  • The Data Transfer Object template is improved:
  • The new template property Serialization Library is added for specifying library used for serialization, possible values are Data Contract, JSON (Newtonsoft.Json), JSON (Microsoft.Text.Json), YamlDotNet
  • The new extended property Do Not Serialize is added for properties and navigation properties to exclude them from serialization
  • The new extended property Serialization Name is added for properties and navigation properties to set custom names in serialization
  • The behavior is changed: WCF Data Contract Attributes is set to False by default now
  • The bug with creating app.config in Visual Studio .NET Core projects is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The JSON (Newtonsoft.Json, Microsoft.Text.Json) and YAML (YamlDotNet) serializations are supported in EF Core (via EF Core template) and EF6 (via DbContext template)
  • The new template property Serialization Library is added for specifying the library used for serialization
  • The new template property Serialize Original Column Names is added for controlling the appearance of original column names in serialization
  • The new template property Serialize Navigation Properties is added for controlling the appearance of navigation properties in serialization
  • The new template property Serialize Null Value is added for managing the behavior of nullable properties
  • The new extended property Do Not Serialize is added for properties and navigation properties to exclude them from serialization
  • The new extended property Serialization Name is added for properties and navigation properties to set custom names in serialization
  • .NET 6.0 is added to the list of available Target Framework versions in Create Model Wizard and Model Settings in EF Core and EF6 models
  • Entity Framework Core 6.0 is supported for Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, Microsoft.Data.Sqlite, Npgsql
  • The new package MySql.EntityFrameworkCore is used now for MySQL Connector .NET in EF Core 3 and EF Core 5
  • EF Core 5 is supported for FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient and Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql
  • EF Core Spatial Data (NetTopologySuite) is supported for Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql
  • The new extended property Record Type is added for classes in the case of C# EF Core template to generate records instead of classes in C# 9.0 or higher and .NET 5 or higher
  • The new extended property Do Not Generate Default Constructor is added to EF Core Model for model, classes, and complex types
  • The new extended property Do Not Generate Mapping is added to EF Core Model for class properties
  • Newtonsoft.Json.Linq (JObject and JToken as property types) is supported for Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql in EF Core Model
  • System.Text.Json (JsonDocument and JsonElement as property types) is supported for Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql and Npgsql in EF Core Mode
  • The new options "Private setter for store generated properties" and "Constructor parameter" are added to Model Settings in EF Core for controlling visibility of setter for store generated properties
  • The following properties are marked as obsolete:
  • the Generate Data Contracts property of the EF Core template
  • the Do Not Generate Data Contract Attribute extended property of navigation properties in EF Core Model
  • the WCF Data Contract Attributes property of the DbContext and Data Transfer Object templates
  • the WCF DataMember Attribute on Navigation Properties property of the DbContext and Data Transfer Object templates
  • The bug with loading Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Core v3.21.1 (.NET Standard 2.1) by the Entity Developer version integrated into Visual Studio is fixed using the workaround with loading previous ODP.NET version from local NuGet cache
  • The bug with incorrect detecting DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity for the properties with DEFAULT NULL in a database, when "Detect function-based column default value" is selected in Create Model Wizard, is fixed in EF4/EF5/EF6
  • The bug with detecting the existing classes with QueryType=True by Update From Database Wizard in EF Core Model is fixed
  • The bug with code generation for Npgsql, when the timetz column is mapped to a class property of type other than DateTimeOffset, in EF Core Model is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The new option "Read-only computed columns" is added to Model Settings for controlling value of the Read Only attribute of class properties created for computed columns (SQL Server)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.10.1189 (Feb 18, 2021)

  • The bug with loading MySql.Data v8.0.23 and Npgsql v5.0.3 providers in Connection Editor is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The behavior is changed in Entity Developer embedded into Visual Studio: lower versions in the EF Core version property of Model Settings are not hidden any more
  • The behavior is changed in EF Core Model: QueryType=True is set now for all classes without PK
  • C# code generation is improved: the using directives are generated instead of full namespaces in the names of attributes for DataAnnotations, NHibernate Validator, and Enterprise Library validation frameworks
  • Code generation is improved: OnModelCreating(modelBuilder) of the base class is invoked now if the Base Context Type property of EF Core Model is initialized

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.10.1165 (Jan 14, 2021)

  • The new attribute DisplayName is implemented for model objects' extended properties which are available via template properties
  • The new options --ContextNamespace and --DefaultNamespace are added to the Create-Model command of Console Entity Developer
  • The bug with setting additional keyboard mapping scheme via menu Options on Windows with German display language is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The IPAddress and PhysicalAddress data types are supported in EF Core Model (Npgsql)
  • The new extended model property Base Context Type is added for specifying a parent class for the generated context in EF Core Model
  • The new extended properties Base Type for complex types and Base Complex Type for model are implemented in EF Core Model
  • Code generation is improved: RelationalIndexBuilderExtensions.HasDatabaseName is generated now instead of RelationalIndexBuilderExtensions.HasName in EF Core 5
  • Display names of extended properties in EF Core Model are updated: Entity Base is renamed to Base Type in class properties, Entity Base is renamed to Base Entity Type in model properties, Context Base is renamed to Base Context Type in model properties
  • The %type name% keyword is supported in the Base Type extended property of entities and complex types, and in Base Complex Type, Base Entity Type, Base Context Type extended model properties for setting generic base type in EF Core Model

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.10.1145 (Dec 17, 2020)

  • Compatible with dotConnect providers.

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.10.1135 (Dec 3, 2020)

  • Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 Preview is supported
  • The bug with adding new arguments at the end of argument list instead of actual position in method signature by Update From Database Wizard is fixed
  • The bug with placing procedure with no parameters in the Procedures node instead of being enlisted in its package's node of Update From Database Wizard tree in the case of Oracle 18c and higher is fixed
  • Entity Framework support
  • Entity Framework Core 5.0 is supported
  • The new features are supported in Entity Framework 5.0:
  • TPT inheritance
  • Many-to-many associations
  • The new types of properties IPAddress and PhysicalAddress
  • The Model Refactoring functionality is supported for classes in EF Core Model
  • The HierarchyId data type is supported via EntityFrameworkCore.SqlServer.HierarchyId nuget package for EF Core 3 and EF Core 5 (SQL Server)
  • The behavior is changed in a standalone Entity Developer: by default the Target Framework model property in EF Core Model is set to .NET 5 instead of .NET Framework
  • The bug with saving non-default value of Target Framework model property in EF6 model modified with a standalone Entity Developer is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.9.1112 (Oct 29, 2020)

  • PostgreSQL 13 is supported
  • Schemas of type A (Application role) are supported in Create Model Wizard / Update From Database / Update To Database (SQL Server)
  • The bug with Visual Studio 2019 integration, when both v16.7 RTM and v16.8 Preview are installed on the same computer, is fixed
  • The bug with reading templates from *.edps by console Entity Developer is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.9.1092 (Oct 1, 2020)

  • Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview is supported
  • Entity Framework support:
  • EF Core spatial data types support is improved: in addition to Geometry and Geography, specific .NET NetTopologySuite types like GeographyPoint, GeographyLine are now available property types (MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite)
  • The default mapping for spatial data types in Server's Options is updated (MySQL, SQLite)
  • The bug with missing EF Core 5 option in the EF Core version property of Model Settings, when a provider is not specified, in EF Core Model is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.8.1083 (Sep 17, 2020)

  • The error message in console Entity Developer is improved: now the text includes the list of all available templates if the specified name of template was incorrect
  • The bug with saving a new model, which has never been saved before, after some time of work in a standalone Entity Developer is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • Pomelo.EntityFrameworkCore.MySql is supported in EF Core Model for connecting to MySQL and MariaDB
  • "Async MySQL ADO.NET Connector" is added to the list of available providers in EF Core Model ("MySqlConnector" NuGet package)
  • FirebirdSql.EntityFrameworkCore.Firebird is supported in EF Core Model for connecting to Firebird
  • FirebirdClient" is added to the list of available providers in EF Core Model ("FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient" NuGet package)
  • Support for "Microsoft SQL Server Compact Data Provider 3.5" and "Microsoft SQL Server Compact Data Provider 4.0" is improved
  • The bug with generating mapping for the properties with Shadow=True in EF Core Model is fixed
  • The bug with using spatial types inside complex types in EF Core Model is fixed
  • The bug with picking up Precision=0 for DATETIME2 columns by Update To Datase Wizard and Generate Database Script Wizard is fixed (SQL Server)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.8.1049 (Jul 30, 2020)

  • The bug with throwing System.NullReferenceException when opening *.edmx with invalid associations is fixed
  • The bug with detecting DbParameter.Size for the NVARCHAR/NCHAR columns of SQL Server in EF Core Model is fixed
  • The bug with creating duplicate FKs in SQL Server by Update To Database Wizard is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.8.1019 (Jun 23, 2020)

  • The new Primitive Default Value Generation property is added to EF, EF Core, NHibernate, Telerik Data Access templates to determine whether to generate initialization for a primitive property based on database DEFAULT column value
  • The new property "Nullable Reference Types" is added to C# templates of EF, EF Core, NHibernate models to specify whether C# 8 nullable reference types and non-nullable reference types must be generated
  • The code generation of assigning DateTime.Now to the DateTime property mapped to the MySQL datetime column with the default value CURRENT_DATE or CURDATE() in EF, EF Core, NHibernate models is supported when Primitive Default Value Generation=LiteralOrExpression (MySQL Connector/Net)
  • The ability to search for available System.Data.SQLite (with SQLite.Interop.dll dependency) and FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient providers in local NuGet cache is implemented in a standalone and console Entity Developer for Entity Model and NHibernate Model
  • Console Entity Developer improvements:
  • Import of stored procedures and functions via Create-Model command is supported
  • The new options --Procedures and --Functions are added to Create-Model command for filtering stored procedures and functions; by default all procedures/functions are imported
  • The new option --Execute is added to Create-Model command for executing procedures/functions to get metadata from result set
  • The asterisk symbol (*) is supported in --Tables and --Views parameters of Create-Model to include all objects
  • The bug with opening connection via some supported providers is fixed
  • The bug with enumerating values separated with comma and without whitespace in --Templates, --Schemas, --Tables parameters is fixed
  • The list of keywords and reserved words of Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL being quoted by Entity Developer is updated
  • Retrieving SQL Server metadata of cross-schema foreign keys by Create Model Wizard and Update From Database Wizard is optimized (SQL Server)
  • The behavior of Create Model Wizard and Update From Database Wizard is changed: timeout used for reading SQL Server metadata is greatly increased
  • The behavior for the new EF, EF Core, NHibernate, Telerik Data Access models is changed: Primitive Default Value Generation is set to Literal now instead of LiteralOrExpression
  • The behavior is changed: the names of system types are generated without "System." prefix now in EF Core and NHibernate models; for example, it is DateTime instead of System.DateTime
  • The behavior is changed: only one confirmation for executing stored procedure is requested by Entity Developer when drag&drop-ing procedure from Database Explorer to Model Explorer or diagram surface
  • The compatibility issue with JetBrains ReSharper is fixed
  • The bug with detecting strings, being expressions, as string literals when generating initialization of string properties basing on database columns' default values in EF, EF Core, NHibernate models is fixed
  • The bug with detecting numbers, being quoted string literals, as strings when generating initialization of numeric properties basing on database columns' default values in EF, EF Core, NHibernate models is fixed
  • The bug with detecting numeric and string literals, specified within round brackets, when generating initialization of properties basing on Oracle columns' default values in EF, EF Core, NHibernate models is fixed ("ODP.NET, Unmanaged Driver"/"ODP.NET, Managed Driver")
  • The bug with retrieving metadata of string columns' default values in MySQL 8 is fixed (MySQL Connector/Net)
  • The bug with droping and recreating indexes by Update From Database Wizard, when there are unique indexes with the same name in different tables, is fixed (SQL Server)
  • The bug with throwing "Index was outside the bounds of the array" by Create Model Wizard and Update From Database Wizard, when getting metadata from result set with datetime2 or/and time columns returned by Table Valued Function, is fixed (SQL Server)
  • The bug with generating new Guid() with Primitive Default Value Generation=Literal in EF, EF Core, NHibernate, Telerik Data Access models is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • Entity Framework Core 5.0 is supported for Microsoft.Data.SqlClient, Microsoft.Data.Sqlite, Npgsql
  • .NET 5.0 is added to the list of available Target Framework versions in Create Model Wizard and Model Settings in EF6 and EF Core models
  • The new option "Execute procedures for result set detection" is added to Model Settings of EF Core Model to control obtaining metadata of a procedure or function result set
  • The new option "Use NULL parameter values" is added to Model Settings of EF Core Model to specify whether NULL parameter values are used for stored procedure execution
  • The new option "Add complex types to diagram" is added to Model Settings of EF Core Model to control behavior of Create Model Wizard and Update Model From Database Wizard
  • The new option "Add new complex types to the current diagram" is added to Update Model From Database Wizard of EF Core Model
  • The new property Collection Property Type is added to EF template "DbContext" and EF Core template "EF Core" to determine .NET type used as a property type for the Many end of associations
  • The new property Collection Initialization Type is added to EF template "DbContext" and EF Core template "EF Core" to determine .NET type used for initialization of the Many end of association; if it is set to None, then no initialization is generated
  • The new partial method is added to the OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder) method generated by DbContext template of EF model
  • The design time connection via Microsoft.Data.SQLite is supported for creating EF Core Model in standalone and console versions of Entity Developer
  • The generation of a class inherited from DbConfiguration in EF 6.4 is added to .NET Core/.NET Standard projects (Npgsql/Firebird)
  • The DbProviderFactories and DbProviderServices registrations are implemented in Create Model Wizard of EF6 models for System.Data.SQLite and FirebirdSql.Data.FirebirdClient providers in .NET Framework and .NET Core/.NET Standard projects
  • The new property Target Framework is added to Create Model Wizard and Model Settings of EF6 models
  • The list of providers (packages) loaded by Create Model Wizard in EF6 models is extended
  • The behavior is changed: the definition of auto-implemented property is put now on the single line with
  • C# DbContext template of Devart Entity Model when ImplementINotifyPropertyChanging=False and ImplementINotifyPropertyChanged=False and PropertyChangePartialMethods=False
  • C# EF Core template of Devart EF Core Model when PropertyChangeNotifiers=False and PropertyChangePartialMethods=False
  • The EF Core model deserialization is improved: Entity Developer shows the full list of detected errors and tries to load the model with invalid elements or ignores such elements if their deserialization is not possible
  • The behavior is changed: now the EF Core template generates an additional partial class for the context class when "File Per Class" and "Generate Partial Class" are set to True
  • The bug with code generation for zero-or-one to zero-or-one association in the EF6 model with the DbContext template (Fluent Mapping=True) is fixed
  • The bug with Visual Studio validation of EF 6.4 models is fixed
  • The bug with missing default value in the generated code basing on DEFAULT value in a database, when any of ImplementINotifyPropertyChanging, ImplementINotifyPropertyChanged, PropertyChangePartialMethods options of DbContext template in EF is turned on, is fixed
  • The bug with adding entities to conceptual part of EF6 model created using Npgsql or System.Data.SQLite is fixed
  • The bug with generating .HasMany end of one-to-many association in EF Core Model is fixed
  • The bug with generating TPH mapping in EF Core 3 model is fixed
  • The bug with false appearing the "Table or view '...' has no primary key columns, and the entity key for the corresponding storage entity was calculated automatically from other fields." warning in the Error List window is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.6.965 (Apr 2, 2020)

  • Command-line interface is implemented in a standalone Entity Developer
  • Model file tree in .NET Core / .NET Standard projects is improved: all generated code files and model files are nested under the same node in Solution Explorer
  • The compatibility with dotConnect providers is improved: provider's package loaded via NuGet is registered in Entity Model, EF Core Model, and NHibernate Model with no need to run the dotConnect installation
  • The ability to search for available providers in local NuGet cache is implemented in a standalone Entity Developer for Entity Model, EF Core Model and NHibernate Model
  • The provider registration is improved: requirement to put provider registration entry in the config file is not obligatory anymore
  • Create Model Wizard is improved: now it allows installing multiple NuGet packages on the final step
  • The bug with loading Npgsql provider installed as NuGet package is fixed (Npgsql)
  • NHibernate support:
  • Devart NHibernate Model is supported in .NET Standard / .NET Core projects
  • Entity Framework support:
  • "ODP.NET, Managed Driver" is added to the list of available providers in EF Core Model
  • The new property Context Name is added to Model Properties in EF Core Model
  • The new property Target Framework is added to Model Properties in EF Core Model

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.6.936 (Feb 20, 2020)

  • Graph tables in SQL Server 2019 are supported (SQL Server)
  • The behavior is changed: columns with IsHidden=1 in SQL Server 2019 are ignored by Create Model Wizard (SQL Server)
  • The bug with detecting MySQL computed columns is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with returning multiple result sets in code generated by the EF Core template is fixed
  • The bug with detecting Identity=True for columns with synonym data type, when DetectFunctionBasedColumnDefault=True in Model Settings, is fixed (PostgreSQL)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.6.894 (Dec 23, 2019)

  • Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview is supported
  • The 12cR2 option is added to the list of available Oracle versions in Model Synchronization Settings
  • Entity Framework support:
  • Entity Framework 6.4 is supported
  • Entity Framework Core 3.1 is supported for projects with target framework .NET Core 2.x/3.x, or .NET Standard 2.x, or .NET Framework 4.6.1 and higher
  • The bug with creating one-to-one association basing on an optional FK in EF Core Model is fixed
  • The bug with code generation for oneOrZero-to-one and one-to-many associations based on an optional FK in EF Core Model is fixed
  • The bug with generating a mapping for a unique constraint specified in owned type property of EF Core Model is fixed
  • The bug with truncating long names to 30 symbols for Oracle Server 12.2 and higher by Update To Database Wizard / Generate Database Script Wizard is fixed
  • The bug with incorrect specifying DbParameter.Size for non-binary and non-string arguments of stored procedure in EF Core Model is fixed (ODP.NET, Unmanaged Driver)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.6.872 (Nov 21, 2019)

  • The bug with registering the list of supported ORMs in C:Program Files (x86)Common FilesDevartEntityDeveloperEntityDeveloper.exe.config is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The Self-Contained Entity Configuration property is added to VB.NET version of EF Core template
  • The Entities Configuration Output property is added to VB.NET version of EF Core template
  • The code generation for the class properties with Alternate Key=True by VB.NET version of EF Core template is supported in EF Core model
  • Support for spatial types in EF Core is added (SQL Server)
  • The bug with code generation, when Raw SQL Query is initialized in class properties, in EF Core 3 model is fixed
  • The bug with generating .HasNoKey(), when Self-Contained Entity Configuration is set to True in properties of EF Core template, in EF Core 3 model is fixed
  • The bug with generating alternate keys, when Self-Contained Entity Configuration is set to True in C# version of EF Core template, in EF Core model is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.6.857 (Oct 31, 2019)

  • Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 Preview is supported
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The DbContext template is improved: precision and scale for database types are generated now in EF4/EF5/EF6 models when Fluent Mapping=True and Mapping Generation Strategy=UseAttributes
  • The bug with throwing the EntityFrameworkCoreVersion error in Create Model Wizard in a standalone Entity Developer is fixed
  • The bug with incorrect detecting DatabaseGeneratedOption.Identity for the properties with DEFAULT NULL in a database, when "Detect function-based column default value" is selected in Create Model Wizard, is fixed in EF4/EF5/EF6 (Oracle)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.6.852 (Oct 24, 2019)

  • PostgreSQL 12 is supported
  • The "Optimize rendering for screens with different pixel densities" feature of Visual Studio 2019 is supported
  • The compatibility issue with JetBrains ReSharper is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • Entity Framework Core 3.0 is supported
  • Entity Framework 6.3 is supported
  • The DbContext template is improved for using Entity Framework 6.3:
  • The "Configuration Type Name" property, which specifies the descendant of DbConfiguration class that should be used for code-based configuration, is added
  • The "Use DbConfigurationType Attribute" property, which determines whether to register the configuration type specified in the ConfigurationTypeName property of the DbConfigurationType attribute, is added
  • With UseDbConfigurationTypeAttribute=false, the static constructor for registering factory and the new partial method OnStaticConfigured are generated

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.5.823 (Sep 13, 2019)

  • The integration with Visual Studio 2019 is improved: now the installation detects both 2019 Release and 2019 Preview versions
  • The behaviour is changed: a plural form of names ending with "s" now has a longer version (for example, status -> statuses)
  • The bug with invalid attempt to cast unsupported Visual Studio project to type 'VSLangProj.VSProject' is fixed
  • The bug with detecting FK relation based on unique index without unique constraint is fixed (SQL Server)
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with naming of a composing unique key by Create Model Wizard / Update From Database Wizard is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 9 is supported for projects with target framework .NET Core 3 or .NET Standard 2.1
  • The bug with default Model-First mapping of System.DateTimeOffset in EF Core 2 model is fixed (SQL Server)
  • The bug with code generation in EF Core is fixed (MySQL Connector/NET)
  • The bug with copying a property with Primary Key=True / Entity Key=True to a complex type is fixed
  • The bug with naming of a composing unique key by Create Model Wizard / Update From Database Wizard in EF Core is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.4.790 (Jul 25, 2019)

  • Compatible with dotConnect providers

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.4.755 (Jun 6, 2019)

  • Deprecated Synchronous API calls are no longer used with Visual Studio 2019
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with applying Generic=True to the CollectionTypeName extended relation property (it is predefined now) in the NHibernate template is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.4.719 (Apr 12, 2019)

  • Visual Studio 2019 is supported.
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with processing DBNull returned by the function in EF Core is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.3.710 (Mar 28, 2019)

  • Visual Studio 2019 Release Candidate 4 is supported
  • Entity Framework support
  • The bug with the Regenerate Storage functionality for the Geometry property in EF5 / EF6 is fixed (MySQL)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.3.660 (Jan 10, 2019)

  • PostgreSQL 11 is supported:
  • The bug with using ASP.NET Core Web Application (.NET Framework) and Azure Functions v1 (.NET Framework) projects in Visual Studio 2017 is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The multiple select functionality in EF Core Model is improved: now it allows setting PrimaryKey, ValueGenerated, Concurrency for several properties simultaneously
  • The bug with detecting order of columns in composite primary key with two or more columns by Update To Database and by Update From Database wizards in EF Core is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.3.631 (Nov 29, 2018)

  • The bug with detecting a false change of DECIMAL columns by Update To Database Wizard is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with throwing System.NullReferenceException, when connection string and provider are not set, is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The new Generate GeneratedCode Attributes option (by default, False) is added to the DbContext template in EF4/EF5/EF6 and the EF Core template
  • The new Generate Dummy Comments option (by default, False) is added to the DbContext template in EF4/EF5/EF6
  • The code formatting is fixed in the DbContext template in EF4/EF5/EF6 and the EF Core template
  • The code generation of a default value for the String property mapped to the column with a default value, that contains a unicode literal with N-prefix, is supported in EF and EF Core
  • The code generation of DateTime.Now for the DateTime property mapped to the column with the default value SYSDATETIME() is supported in EF and EF Core
  • The code generation of DateTime.UtcNow for the DateTime property mapped to the column with the default value GETUTCDATE() or SYSUTCDATETIME() is supported in EF and EF Core
  • The code generation of DateTimeOffset.Now for the DateTimeOffset property mapped to the column with the default value SYSDATETIMEOFFSET() or GETDATE() is supported in EF and EF Core
  • The code generation of DateTimeOffset.UtcNow for the DateTimeOffset property mapped to the column with the default value GETUTCDATE() or SYSUTCDATETIME() is supported in EF and EF Core
  • The code generation of a default value for the Guid property mapped to the column with the default value NEWID() or NEWSEQUENTIALID() is supported in EF1/EF4/EF5/EF6
  • The code generation of a default value for the Boolean property mapped to the column with the numeric default value is supported in EF1/EF4/EF5/EF6
  • The bug with detecting a default value GETDATE() in DateTime properties and NEWID() / NEWSEQUENTIALID() in Guid properties by Update To Database Wizard in EF Core Model is fixed
  • The bug with generating fluent mapping for the TPC inheritance by VB.NET version of DbContext template in EF4/EF5/EF6 is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.3.606 (Oct 25, 2018)

  • The bug with throwing "Custom tool error: bufferAdapter is not a VsTextDocData" in .NET Standard projects is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The possibility to set parameters for Generator=native is implemented

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.3.582 (Sep 20, 2018)

  • Using an extended property of type OutputInfo is supported
  • Code generated for nullable properties is simplified: now T? is generated instead of System.Nullable<T>
  • Entity Framework support:
  • An additional constructor that accepts DbContextOptions as an argument is added to the DbContext class descendant in the VB.NET version of the DbContext template for EF Core
  • The bug with "No database provider has been configured for this DbContext." in the DbContext template for EF Core is fixed
  • The bug with code generation for nullable properties for EF1/EF4/EF5/EF6 is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.3.569 (Aug 31, 2018)

  • The bug with setting password as clear text in connection string when "Persist Security Info=False;" is fixed
  • The bug with applying a custom mapping for uniqueidentifier and decimal types specified via Servers Options is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with explicit generating a field for the property with Access=Field is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.3.555 (Aug 10, 2018)

  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with detecting order of columns in composite primary key by Update Model From Database Wizard in EF Core is fixed (PostgreSQL)
  • Telerik Data Access support:
  • The bug with Database-First mapping of sql_variant to System.Object is fixed (SQL Server)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.3.543 (Jul 19, 2018)

  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with using Update From Database after setting Join Table via class properties is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.3.525 (Jun 22, 2018)

  • The bug with generating ParameterDirection.InputOutput for SQL Server OUTPUT parameters is fixed
  • Entity Framework supportL
  • Entity Framework Core 2.1 is supported
  • Query type support is added: classes now have the Query Type property, and if it is set to true, this class is generated as a query type
  • Lazy loading for Entity Framework Core 2.1 is supported:
  • Model now has the Use Lazy-Loading Proxies property, which enables lazy loading on the model level
  • Navigation properties now have the Lazy property, which enables lazy loading for a specific navigation property
  • Properties now have the Constructor Parameter property, for configuring a parameterized constructor of the class
  • The "Include Environment Variables" property, determining whether context configuration will be extended with environment variables when a connection string from the appsettings.json file is used, is added to the EF Core template
  • The "Json File Base Path" property, specifying the base path for file-based providers when a connection string from the appsettings.json file is used, is added to the EF Core template

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.2.505 (May 25, 2018)

  • Compatible with dotConnect providers

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.2.487 (Apr 27, 2018)

  • Entity Framework support:
  • The new Controller Area extended class property is added to EF Core Model
  • The check of conditions for setting optionsBuilder.Use... in the generated OnConfiguring method by the EF Core template is improved
  • The bug with detecting INT stored procedure parameters in EF Core is fixed (SQL Server)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.2.468 (Mar 30, 2018)

  • The new Retrieve Cross Database Relations option is implemented in Model Settings for detecting FK relations between tables in different databases (MySQL)
  • The bug with the Retrieve Data functionality on the base class of TPH inheritance is fixed
  • The bug with the Find Next functionality of T4 Editor embedded into Visual Studio is fixed
  • The bug with throwing the "IDE not supported" exception by Entity Developer in Visual Studio 2017 of versions 15.6.* is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The new SQL Type, Size, Precision, Scale options are added to the Parameters tab in Method Editor of EF Core Model
  • The process of synchronizing methods and parameters with database stored procedures in EF Core Model is improved
  • The bug with adding entry to appsettings.json, when "Use the following connection string from App.Config" and "Rewrite connection string during regeneration" in Model Settings are turned on, is fixed
  • The bug with throwing the "Multiple constructors accepting all given argument types have been found in type '...'. There should only be one applicable constructor." error by the code generated with the MVC Controller template in ASP.NET Core Web Application is fixed
  • The bug with missing DataMember attribute on the Many end of an association, when using the EF Core template with "Generate Data Contracts=True", is fixed
  • The bug with applying the "Include foreign key columns in the model" model setting by Create Model Wizard is fixed (SQL Server)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.2.439 (Feb 15, 2018)

  • Identity columns in PostgreSQL 10 are supported
  • Entity Framework support:
  • Support for ASP.NET Core MVC is added to the Data Annotations Metadata template
  • The bug with applying the DevartEFCoreGenerator custom tool in Visual Basic .NET Core projects is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.2.414 (Jan 12, 2018)

  • The ModelNameAsFilesPrefix property is implemented in the RepositoryAndUnitOfWork template
  • Entity Framework support:
  • Support for ASP.NET Core MVC is added to the MVC Controller template
  • The code generation for async method calls in the EF Core template is improved
  • NHibernate support:
  • Support for formulas in navigation properties is added
  • The bug with the Fluent NHibernate template, when model includes 2 or more filters, is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.2.384 (Nov 24, 2017)

  • The usage of long identifiers (up to 140 symbols) for naming model objects is supported
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The new "Detect function-based column default value" option is implemented in Model Settings of EF Core model
  • The code generation for async method calls is added to the EF Core template
  • The bug with generating code by the EF Core template for running Table-Valued Functions is fixed (SQL Server)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.2.366 (Oct 30, 2017)

  • The .NET Standard 2.0 projects in Visual Studio 2017 are supported
  • The .NET Core 2.0 projects in Visual Studio 2017 are supported
  • The macaddr8 data type introduced in PostgreSQL 10 is supported
  • The bug with escaping invalid XML characters in the comments generated by templates is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • Entity Framework Core 2.0 is supported
  • The Retrieve Data functionality via Model Explorer for EF Core 2 is implemented
  • NHibernate support:
  • The new Unimplemented class property is added for using the Dynamic Models functionality

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.1.333 (Sep 7, 2017)

  • The integration with Visual Studio 2017 is improved: the installation is now silent, without VSIX Installer prompt window
  • The Devart Visual Studio packages registration into Visual Studio 2017 is improved: the packages are now available for all Windows accounts
  • The bug with losing Toolbar and docking customizations of a standalone designer during reinstall is fixed
  • The bug with using the Retrieve Data functionality via Database Explorer and Model Explorer in EF Core Model is fixed (Microsoft.Data.SQLite)
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with using a variable with null value in LINQ query in EF Core is fixed
  • The bug with generating code for calling stored procedures by the EF Core template is fixed (SQL Server)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.1.311 (Aug 4, 2017)

  • The bug with generating code for the PropertyChanging event is fixed
  • The bug with retrieving metadata from several schemas available in the same database is fixed (SQL Server)
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The new Raw SQL Query class property and SQL method property with the corresponding editors are implemented in Entity Framework Core
  • The bug with applying Custom Tool by Devart Entity Model (*.edml) in VS 2017 .NET Core projects is fixed
  • The bug with quoting default table and column names in EF Core is fixed
  • The bug with registering DevartEntityDeploy on the workstation with just Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 installed is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.1.299 (Jul 13, 2017)

  • The bug with a Devart provider not found in Entity Developer as a standalone application when the provider is installed without placing Devart assemblies to the GAC is fixed
  • Entity Framework support
  • The behaviour is changed: IsRequired(false / true) for navigation properties is always generated in EF Core fluent mapping now
  • The bug with throwing "Can't load provider assembly." by EF6 model in a standalone Entity Developer is fixed
  • The bug with serializing user defined extended properties for associations is fixed (all databases)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.1.265 (May 26, 2017)

  • Visual Studio 2017 is supported
  • The .NET Core projects in Visual Studio 2017 are supported
  • The Snake case in both Model and Database naming rules is supported via the new "Add underscore" option
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with setting json datatype and rowversion pseudotype in SSDL is fixed (MySQL)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.1.215 (Mar 29, 2017)

  • Released on 16-Mar-17
  • Visual Studio 2017 is supported
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with generating the virtual keyword when Inheritance Modifier=None is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.0.205 (Mar 20, 2017)

  • Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate 4 is supported
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with throwing the "Stack empty" error after stopping validation before code generation in a standalone version is fixed
  • The bug with a workability of the "Validate on Build" option in Model Settings is fixed
  • The bug with compilation of the EF Core template after copying it to model folder is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.0.172 (Jan 18, 2017)

  • Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate is supported
  • Telerik Data Access support:
  • The bug with deserialization of associations when opening *.rlinq model is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.0.157 22-Dec-16 (Jan 18, 2017)

  • Entity Framework support:
  • The MySQL Connector/Net support is added to Entity Framework Core models

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.0.147 08-Dec-16 (Jan 18, 2017)

  • The possibility to choose whether to add new entities to a diagram or not in Update From Database Wizard is implemented
  • The bug with setting incorrect length for varchar(max), nvarchar(max), and varbinary(max) SQL Server columns added by Create Model Wizard and Update Model From Database Wizard is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The behaviour is changed: now the DbContext template generates an additional partial class for the context class when "File Per Class" and "Generate Partial Class" are set to True
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with saving / deleting a class property with the Version=True option is fixed
  • Telerik Data Access support:
  • The bug with setting concurrency mode for the timestamp column is fixed (SQL Server)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 6.0.30 (Jun 24, 2016)

  • The bug with applying the ON DELETE CASCADE option by Create Model Wizard and Update Model From Database Wizard is fixed (Oracle)
  • NHibernate support:
  • The behaviour is changed: the type definitions (typedef) are generated now in XML mapping files of each class, which uses the typedefs, if the Xml Mapping File Per Class template property is set to True

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.8.695 (Oct 5, 2015)

  • The bug with wrong diagram layout is fixed
  • The bug with checking the evaluation period in the trial version is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.8.676 (Aug 20, 2015)

  • NHibernate support:
  • The behaviour is changed: now the database comments are generated via the Update Database From Model and Generate Database Script From Model wizards (PostgreSQL)
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The Use ObservableCollection property of the DbContext template is implemented
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The behaviour is changed: now the 1:1 and 1:0..1 associations are displayed differently on the diagram

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.8.662 (Aug 1, 2015)

  • Visual Studio 2015 is supported
  • The support for materialized views is implemented (Oracle)
  • The bug with generating namespace for the IsExternal enum is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.654 (Aug 1, 2015)

  • The bug with freezing Visual Studio when using the Find dialog in large models is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The possibility of setting default values for enum properties is implemented
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The possibility of setting default values for enum properties is implemented

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.644 (Aug 1, 2015)

  • Compatible with dotConnect providers

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.634 (Aug 1, 2015)

  • The bug with the quoting default values of the VARBINARY(MAX) and UNIQUEIDENTIFIER columns when performing Update Database From Model and Generate Database Script wizards is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug related to the "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error when generating code is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.619 (Aug 1, 2015)

  • Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate is supported
  • The bug with detecting the default values of attributes added via the Attributes menu is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with generating code by MVC Controller template is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.586 (Apr 9, 2015)

  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with ignoring the "Delete Cascaded" property of the association when performing the Update Database From Model and Update Model From Database wizards is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.576 (Mar 26, 2015)

  • Entity Framework support:
  • The behaviour is changed: now the default values are not set for string properties, that correspond to fields with the default values like expressions
  • The bug with missing settings for the LazyLoadingEnabled property in the generated code when working with the Self-Tracking Entity template is fixed
  • The bug related to working with the Table Per Type (TPT) and abstract entity classes when synchronization is enabled is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.549 (Feb 13, 2015)

  • NHibernate support:
  • The Natural Id property of HibernateProperty in fluent mapping is supported
  • The bug with the wrong code generation for Table Per Type (TPT) hierarchy when NHibernate template is used with Property Change Notifiers=True and Implement Cloneable=True options is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with the wrong code generation for Table Per Concrete Type (TPC) hierarchy when DbContext template is used with Fluent Mapping=True and Mapping Generation Strategy=UseConfigurationClasses (or UseOnModelCreatingMethod) options is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.541 (Feb 3, 2015)

  • The bug with "Trial period expired" is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.539 (Jan 29, 2015)

  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with generating code by the MVC Controller template for multiple self-associations is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.530 (Jan 15, 2015)

  • Entity Framework support
  • The bug with generating connection string supplied to constructor in case of placing the model in a subfolder of the project is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.510 (Dec 18, 2014)

  • The bug with opening nodes of views in Update Model Wizard is fixed (Oracle)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.490 (Nov 20, 2014)

  • The bug related to script generation by the "Generate Database Script" wizard with the "Include Drop" option is fixed
  • The bug related to resetting enum arguments of custom attributes in the standalone version is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with displaying the "Describe Stored Procedure" connection string parameter in the Connection Editor is fixed (Oracle)
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with incorrect execution of the "Create Storage and Mapping" command for an association is fixed
  • The bug with displaying the "Describe Stored Procedure" connection string parameter in the Connection Editor is fixed (Oracle)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.480 (Nov 7, 2014)

  • The bug with reading all constructor parameters for attributes when opening model is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug related to disappearance of the foreign key property when performing "Create Storage and Mapping" from the context menu of the association is fixed
  • The bug related to the "'End Class' must be preceded by a matching 'Class'" error when adding stored procedure to the model and using DbContext template in Visual Basic projects is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.461 (Oct 9, 2014)

  • Compatible with dotConnect providers

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.451 (Sep 25, 2014)

  • The behaviour is changed: Generate Database Script From Model saves the output in ASCII format if there are no unicode symbols in the script; UTF-8 is used otherwise
  • The bug with model creation when using multiple naming rules (suffixes, prefixes) is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The Do Not Generate Cloneable Attribute extended property of classes and complex types is implemented (by default, false)
  • The behaviour is changed: the Generate Serializable Attribute extended property of classes and complex types is renamed to Do Not Generate Serializable Attribute (by default, false) with changing its logic correspondingly
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The behaviour is changed: now the default value for the 'File Per Class' option of the DbContext template is True
  • The bug with generating .HasPrecision for decimal types when using non-attribute fluent mapping (DbContext template) is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.441 (Sep 11, 2014)

  • Compatible with dotConnect providers

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.436 (Sep 4, 2014)

  • The Remove Invalid Characters option (by default, True) is added to the Model Naming rules; if it is set to False, all invalid characters will be replaced with underscores
  • NHibernate support:
  • The NHibernate 4 is supported
  • The NHibernateV3Compatible option in the NHibernate templates is implemented
  • The Generate Serializable Attribute property of classes and complex types is implemented
  • The support of mapping a string representation of enum to the string fields in database is implemented
  • The bug related to the "Abstract class '..' cannot participate in a Table Per Type inheritance" error is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The Enable WinForms Data Binding property of the DbContext template is implemented
  • The Property Change Partial Methods property of the DbContext template is implemented for generating partial methods On%PropertyName%Changing and On%PropertyName%Changed for each primitive property of entity classes
  • The behaviour is changed: now partial configuration classes are generated when DbContext template is used with Fluent Mapping=True and Mapping Generation Strategy=UseConfigurationClasses options
  • The bug with the wrong code generation for associations when DbContext template is used with Fluent Mapping=True and Mapping Generation Strategy=UseAttributes options is fixed
  • The bug with generating DatabaseGeneratedAttribute for non-EntityKey properties when using attribute mapping (DbContext template) is fixed
  • The bug with generating DatabaseGeneratedAttribute for all EntityKey properties when using fluent mapping (DbContext template) is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.422 (Aug 16, 2014)

  • The possibility to use relative paths to assemblies in code generation templates is implemented
  • NHibernate support:
  • The Generate Serializable Attribute property is added to the NHibernate template
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The Implement Equals property is added to the DbContext, ObjectContext, and POCO Entity templates
  • The bug related to detecting nullable foreign key as non-nullable is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.412 (Aug 1, 2014)

  • The bug with a format of generated DataAnnotations.RegularExpression for Numeric validate format is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • Oracle Managed Data Provider for .NET is supported
  • Entity Framework support:
  • Oracle Managed Data Provider for .NET is supported
  • The bug with displaying Entity Set in the Class Editor dialog is fixed
  • The bug with applying changes after editing the list of the extended properties via the Model Settings dialog is fixed
  • The bug with adding references to both EntityFramework.dll and System.Data.Entity.dll assemblies simultaneously by Create Model Wizard, when Entity Framework version is set to Entity Framework 6 in the wizard, is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.397 (Jul 10, 2014)

  • Entity Framework support:
  • The View Generation option of the model with Entity Framework version = Entity Framework 6 is supported for the DbContext (only with XML mapping), EntityObject, POCO, and Self-Tracking Entities templates
  • The bug with "DevartEntityDeploy" task, when .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.5 are not installed on the target workstation, is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.387 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with storing custom settings in stored procedure mapping is fixed
  • The bug with ordering properties in the .HasKey configuration mapping in case of composite primary key is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.377 (Jun 26, 2014)

  • Compatible with dotConnect providers

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.367 (Jun 5, 2014)

  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug related to the opening of the *.edmx files is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.357 (May 15, 2014)

  • The behaviour is changed: now by default VARCHAR(8000) / NVARCHAR(4000) columns, instead of VARCHAR(MAX) / NVARCHAR(MAX), correspond to the string properties in the model
  • The bug related to performing queries via Query Editor/Retrieve Data when working with the 'Enterprise Library' validation framework is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with sorting entities by name in the Relation Class field of Association Editor is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.342 (Apr 25, 2014)

  • The bug with 'Load Test Editor' is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with generating "The given key was not present in the dictionary" error in the Update Model From Database wizard is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The behaviour is changed: now a property in the generated code is initialized basing on the default value in CSDL only (instead of default values in any of SSDL and CSDL)
  • The bug related to the incorrect value setting for the "Has Stream" property when working with the WCF Data Services projects is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.331 (Apr 12, 2014)

  • SQL Server 2014 is supported
  • The bug related to the script generation by the "Generate Database Script"/"Update Database From Model" wizards for properties with 'Default Value = getdate()' is fixed (SQL Server)
  • NHibernate support:
  • The Generate Partial Class option in the Fluent NHibernate template is implemented
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with throwing System.NullReferenceException when generating a method basing on a stored procedure is fixed (Firebird)
  • The bug related to the models creation when working with DB2 for z/OS is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.321 (Mar 29, 2014)

  • The bug with setting nullable type for EnumType property by the Data Transfer Object template is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with looking for NHibernate assemblies basing on the project references is fixed in the Entity Developer version integrated into Visual Studio
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The override modifier for DbSet class properties generated by DbContext templates is added

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.311 (Mar 7, 2014)

  • The behaviour is changed: now paths to assemblies with attributes (Model Settings -> Model -> Attributes) are saved and used as relative paths
  • The bug related to the "Timeout expired error" when working with replication stored procedures is fixed
  • The bug related to the "Data is Null. This method or property cannot be called on Null values" when retrieving metadata is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug related to the "An error occurred during an attempt to compile the template 'Data Transfer Object'" error is fixed
  • The bug with generating the JoinedBase and JoinedKey attributes by the Castle ActiveRecord template is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The information message about availability of NuGet Package Manager on the workstation is added in the Entity Developer version integrated into Visual Studio
  • The bug with generating the entities namespace in fluent mapping configuration classes is fixed
  • The bug with generating DatabaseGeneratedOption.Computed for non-EntityKey properties in fluent mapping is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.296 (Feb 14, 2014)

  • The bug related to the "Version string portion was too short or too long" error is fixed
  • The bug related to the wrong script generation for "sp_addextendedproperty" is fixed: now the SQL is generated with the "schema" instead of "user" (SQL Server)
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The "WCF DataMember Attribute on Navigation Properties" property is added to the Data Transfer Object template for pointing the end (-s) where the attribute should be generated
  • The behaviour is changed: the validation of EF6 models depends on the EntityFramework.dll functionality only (.NET Framework 4.5 is not required any more)
  • The bug with parsing inheritances in *.edmx is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The bug with dropping the UpdateCheck property value from Always to Never when re-opening the model is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.286 (Jan 30, 2014)

  • The bug related to the "Object is invalid. Extended properties are not permitted on '...', or the object does not exist" error when updating a database from a model after renaming the entity class and adding the comment on it is fixed
  • The bug with generating NEWID() by "Generate Database Script"/"Update Database From Model" wizards for non-nullable Guid Identity property when 'Server Version=Azure' is fixed (SQL Server)
  • The bug with retrieving metadata when connecting to PostgreSQL server 8.0 is fixed (PostgreSQL)
  • The bug with creating association basing on composite foreign key, when the column order in the corresponding primary key is different, is fixed (PostgreSQL)
  • NHibernate support:
  • The code generation for model classes is improved: the initialization of the properties, having default values, when creating classes is added

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.276 (Jan 16, 2014)

  • The bug related to the incorrect change detection when updating database from model (the precision and comments) is fixed (MySQL)
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with creating models for Entity Framework 6 on the workstation without .NET Framework 4.5 installed is fixed
  • The bug with association mapping in the DbContext template is fixed
  • The bug with composite keys mapping in the DbContext template is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.261 (Dec 27, 2013)

  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug related to the "Custom tool error: Unknown namespace or alias (NamespaceName.NamespaceName)" error when setting return type of the method to complex type is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.251 (Dec 27, 2013)

  • Compatible with dotConnect providers

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.241 (Nov 29, 2013)

  • The behaviour is changed: the values of "Target Server" and "Server Version" can be reset via the Model Settings > Synchronization > Mapping dialog despite the fact whether connection is specified in Database Explorer or not
  • NHibernate support:
  • The behaviour is changed: the "Regenerate Storage and Mapping" option clears existing mapping settings to make NHibernate runtime to use default storage values
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The new "Provider Manifest Token" model property is implemented to identify the target server

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.232 (Nov 21, 2013)

  • Compatible with dotConnect providers

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.7.222 (Nov 21, 2013)

  • Visual Studio 2013 is supported
  • The behaviour is changed: installation with the /VERYSILENT install parameter will uninstall the other version of the product without any dialog box if it is installed
  • The bug with SILENT/VERYSILENT uninstall with the NOFEEDBACK option is fixed
  • The bug with IntelliSense when working with T4 Editor in Visual Studio 2012 is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • Entity Framework 6 is supported

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.6.213 (Nov 21, 2013)

  • Oracle 12c is supported
  • NHibernate support:
  • The behaviour is changed: "Generate Database Script"/"Update Database From Model" wizards generate columns with the identity clause 'GENERATED AS IDENTITY' for auto-generated primary key properties (only for Oracle 12c)
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The behaviour is changed: "Generate Database Script"/"Update Database From Model" wizards generate columns with the identity clause 'GENERATED AS IDENTITY' for properties with 'Store Generated Pattern=Identity' (only for Oracle 12c)
  • The bug with "DevartEntityDeploy" task, which generates mapping files, in Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.5.196 (Sep 24, 2013)

  • Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate is supported
  • The bug with releasing memory after closing the Retrieve Data window is fixed
  • The bug with the Overwrite.Merge template option is fixed
  • The bug related to the "Value cannot be null" error when selecting "Regenerate storage and mapping" from the shortcut menu in Model Explorer in Visual Studio is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.5.185 (Sep 5, 2013)

  • The "Close the window when the generation completes successfully" option in the Generation Process window is implemented in the standalone Entity Developer
  • The bug with availability of the New Blank Template option of the Templates context menu in Model Explorer in the Entity Developer version integrated into Visual Studio is fixed
  • The bug with generating invalid code when using MVC View Advanced template is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with generating code by MVC Controller template is fixed
  • The bug with saving column properties via Column Editor is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The "Rewrite connection string during regeneration" option (default value is True) of model settings is added to provide the possibility to turn off modifying connection string in *.config after model is saved first time
  • The design time support for model-defined functions is added
  • The behavior is changed: now connection string is configured with the name of the assembly, where the model is located, in case when the context class is located in another assembly
  • The bug related to the detection of Table Per Type inheritances as Table Per Concrete Type inheritances when opening an existing model is fixed
  • The bug with the Retrieve Data functionality of the model with the DbContext template, when its Fluent Mapping property is set to True, is fixed
  • The bug with parsing *.edmx is fixed
  • The bug with generating "An item with the same key has already been added" error when using DbContext Template is fixed
  • The bug with DbContext template, when its MappingGenerationStrategy is set to UseConfigurationClasses, generating fluent mapping for an association with turned off generation of one navigation property is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.5.164 (Sep 5, 2013)

  • The "Model Name As Files Prefix" property is implemented for the templates which generate classes for model entities
  • The possibility of adding custom attributes to enum members is implemented
  • The behaviour is changed: the possibility to exclude the generation of keys (primary, foreign) in "Update Database From Model" and "Generate Database Script From Model " wizards is added
  • The behaviour is changed: now by default MVC Controller template generates files in the model folder, MVC View Advanced template creates files in the Views model subfolder
  • The behaviour is changed: a table storage engine is not set explicitly in the generated DDL (MySQL)
  • The behaviour is changed: the PostgreSQL limitation in 63 character for identifier names is taken into account when the SQL script is generated by Update Database From Model / Generate Database Script wizards
  • NHibernate support:
  • The GenerateDummyComments template property for suppressing generation of dummy comments for each class and its members is implemented
  • The bug with breaking the parameters order in Generator Parameters Editor is fixed
  • The bug with setting access strategy for the class property in fluent mapping is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with generating code by Self-Tracking Entity template is fixed
  • The bug with parsing *.edmx is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The behaviour is changed: the possibility to add one-to-one associations with nullable foreign key properties is added

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.5.150 (Jul 22, 2013)

  • The bug related to the wrong Source values for foreign key properties when adding associations with the selected "Add foreign key properties to the child class" check box is fixed
  • The bug with applying RangeAttribute of the DataAnnotation validation framework for nullable properties is fixed
  • The bug with wrong script generation for several tables with autoincrement fields in the "Generate Database Script From Model" and "Update Database From Model" wizards is fixed (Oracle)
  • The bug with the "Recreate Database Tables" option for tables which use sequences is fixed (Oracle)
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The behaviour is changed: a default value for the "Detect Table Per Type inheritances" option in Model settings is set to False
  • The bug with parsing *.edmx is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.5.139 (Jul 3, 2013)

  • The "Regenerate Storage and Mapping" option for regenerating model parts, specific to the database server, is added to the diagram shortcut menu
  • The bug with reading facets of a stored procedure parameter is fixed (Oracle)
  • Entity Framework support:
  • Storage Entity Editor is improved: the capability to edit extended columns settings, such as facets, is added
  • The bug with adding a new property to the base abstract class in Table Per Hierarchy inheritance is fixed
  • The bug with generating several identical complex types basing on the multiple result set of stored procedure is fixed (SQL Server)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.5.130 (Jun 20, 2013)

  • The bug with wrong code generation for nullable enum properties is fixed
  • The bug with generating "Access Denied" error when using MVC templates is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with regenerating the model class by the Update Model From Database wizard, if the corresponding table in the database is changed, is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The behaviour is changed: DatabaseGeneratedOption is always generated for EntityKey properties when using fluent mapping
  • The bug with a serialization of stored procedures mapping to CUD operations in an association is fixed
  • The bug with ordering parameters of a method when Update From Database Wizard adds/removes parameters to the method signature is fixed
  • The bug with parsing *.edmx which includes an association, which has different values in a navigation property name and a role at the same end, is fixed
  • The bug with indentifying citext parameter when importing function in SSDL is fixed (PostgreSQL)
  • The bug with removing stored procedure parameters in SSDL when using Update From Database Wizard is fixed (Oracle)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.5.120 (Jun 6, 2013)

  • The bug with referencing a custom assembly in T4 template is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The behaviour is changed: auto-implemented properties are generated when DbContext template is used with ImplementINotifyPropertyChanged=False and ImplementINotifyPropertyChanging=False
  • The bug with a synchronization when adding new properties to the base abstract class in Table Per Hierarchy inheritance is fixed
  • The bug with parsing *.edmx which includes the class with a self-association is fixed
  • The bug with retrieving an association mapping when opening *.edmx is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • System.Data.Linq.Binary type is added to the "Type Mapping Rule Editor"

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.5.115 (May 30, 2013)

  • The "WCF DataMember Attribute on Navigation Properties" property is added to the DbContext and POCO templates for pointing the end (-s) where the attribute should be generated
  • The bug with placing tables names in the root of the "Choose change action" page of Update From Database Wizard is fixed
  • The bug with generating NRE when setting the output of the template to the unloaded project is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.5.105 (May 16, 2013)

  • The Save and Refresh buttons for persisting and reloading changes to / from a database is added to the Retrieve Data grid
  • The behaviour is changed: a string default value for the property can be set without quotes in the Properties window
  • NHibernate support:
  • The Inheritance Modifier property of HibernateProperty and HibernateRelationProperty is implemented
  • The bug with setting the name of type for enum when generating the code for fluent mapping is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The behaviour is changed: the validation error is not generated when an abstract class is used in Table Per Type inheritance
  • The bug with mapping nested complex data types in the MSL part of the model in the synchronization mode is fixed
  • The bug with quoting function name in the Default Value attribute of the timestamp property in Update To Database/Generate Database Script wizards is fixed (MySQL)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.5.89 (Apr 23, 2013)

  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with incorrect work of the Update Model From Database wizard for models containing stored procedures with parameters is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.5.87 (Apr 18, 2013)

  • The bug with loading mapping rules for some datatypes under .NET Framework 4.5 is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The bug with wrong ResultType generation for stored procedures with multiple results set is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.5.80 (Apr 5, 2013)

  • A new MVC Controller template, generating a ASP.NET MVC controller with data access code, is added
  • A new MVC View Advanced template, generating an ASP.NET MVC view based in Twitter Bootstrap, is added
  • A new Data Transfer Object template for DTO classes generation is implemented
  • A new Data Annotation Metadata template, generating Data Annotation metadata classes and decorating classes and properties with data annotation attributes for validation, presentation and defining metadata, is added
  • Add Template dialog box is improved
  • The Refresh option in the Attributes tab of the Model Settings window is implemented; it updates the list of available attributes types in the referenced assemblies
  • The capability to modify custom attributes for several selected entities or properties at the same time is implemented
  • The capability to cancel metadata reading in wizards and Database Explorer is added
  • The "Recreate Database Tables" check box, which allows to drop and recreate database tables, is added to the "Update To Database" wizard
  • The "Include Drop" check box for including DROP commands for database objects to the generated script is added to Generate Database Script Wizard
  • A new shortcut menu command "Include Related", which allows making a copy of the related objects in the specified diagram, is added
  • A new shortcut menu command "Add To Model with Related", which allows adding tables, related to the selected one, to the model, is added to the shortcut menu of tables in Database Explorer
  • A new shortcut menu command "Add On Diagram With Related", which allows creating an object and all the objects related to it on a diagram, is added to the shortcut menu of classes, complex types, and enums in Model Explorer
  • New "Simple" diagram skin is added for displaying a diagram in metro style
  • The "Default Width" diagram property for specifying the default width for newly created diagram shapes (entities, complex types and enums) is added
  • The user interface of Express Edition concerning availability of custom templates is improved
  • The behaviour is changed: now, when creating a new TPH discriminator column in Inheritance Editor, it has the string type by default
  • The behaviour is changed: the error is generated if the Abstract inheritance modifier is set for the class which is involved in the Table Per Type inheritance
  • The behaviour is changed: empty value is used in property editors instead of -1 for marking facets of class property without assigned value
  • NHibernate support:
  • The support for enums declared in external assemblies is implemented
  • The capability for setting special rules for generating default names of newly-created database columns, which correspond to complex type's properties, when using the Model First approach is implemented
  • The capability to customize properties that are automatically added when creating a new entity is added (a new Initialization page is added to the Model->General section of the Model Settings dialog box)
  • Class Editor is improved: the capability to edit extended property settings, such as validation and presentation, is added
  • Type Editor is improved: the capability to edit extended property settings, such as validation and presentation, is added
  • The Column Editor is improved: now default settings for database columns, such as Not Null, Unicode, Precision and Scale, are displayed in the dialog box
  • The behaviour is changed: System.DateTime .NET structure is mapped to TIMESTAMP database type when using Model First approach (PostgreSQL)
  • Entity Framework support:
  • A new WCF RIA Domain Service template, generating a WCF RIA Services domain service class for a Devart Entity Framework model is added
  • The Namespace property of class, complex type, enum is implemented
  • The Entity Container Namespace properties of the model is implemented
  • The support for enums declared in external assemblies is implemented
  • The capability for setting special rules for generating default names of database objects when using the Model First approach is implemented (a new Advanced page is added to the Synchronization->Database Naming section of the Model Settings dialog box)
  • The capability to customize properties that are automatically added when creating a new entity, and options that are automatically set when creating a new property is added (a new Initialization page is added to the Model->General section of the Model Settings dialog box)
  • New setting "Detect Table Per Type inheritances", which enables automatic detection of TPT inheritances, is added for Create Model Wizard and model
  • Adding information to application's *.config file about cursors used in the model is implemented (Oracle Data Provider for .NET)
  • DbContext template is improved: a "WCF Data Contract Attributes" setting for generation of DataContract, KnownType, and DataMember attributes for classes and properties is added
  • DbContext template is improved: "Implement INotifyPropertyChanging" and "Implement INotifyPropertyChanged" template settings are added
  • DbContext template is improved: a new "Mapping Generation Strategy" property that determines the method of mapping generation is implemented
  • POCO template is improved: a new "WCF Data Contract Attributes" setting for generating DataContract, KnownType, and DataMember attributes for classes and properties is added
  • POCO template is improved: "Proxy Creation Enabled" setting is implemented
  • POCO template is improved: new template settings, "Implement INotifyPropertyChanging" and "Implement INotifyPropertyChanged", are added
  • Create Model Wizard is improved: it is now able to download and install the required 'EnityFramework' Nuget package for Entity Framework 6 models, and for models for Entity Framework 4 and 5 in case they use the DbContext template
  • The Storage Column Editor dialog box is improved: the possibility to specify different settings that were previously available only in the Properties docking window are implemented
  • Class Editor is improved: the capability to edit extended property settings, such as validation, presentation, and facets, is added
  • Type Editor is improved: the capability to edit extended property settings, such as validation, presentation, and facets, is added
  • The bug with closing connection in the generated method, which has multiple result sets, is fixed
  • The bug with adding annotation:UseStrongSpatialTypes="false" automatically to CSDL of the model with Entity Framework version set to 5 or higher is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • A new WCF RIA Domain Service template, generating a WCF RIA Services domain service class for a Devart LINQ to SQL model is added
  • The Namespace property of a class and an enum is implemented
  • The capability for setting special rules for generating default names of database objects when using the Model First approach is implemented (a new Advanced page is added to the Synchronization->Database Naming section of the Model Settings dialog box)
  • The capability to customize properties that are automatically added when creating a new entity, and options that are automatically set when creating a new property is added (a new Initialization page is added to the Model->General section of the Model Settings dialog box)
  • The support for enums declared in external assemblies is implemented
  • Class Editor is improved: the capability to edit extended property settings, such as validation, presentation, and facets, is added
  • Type Editor is improved: the capability to edit extended property settings, such as validation, presentation, and facets, is added
  • The "Rewrite connection string during regeneration" check box of Model Settings is implemented to determine whether to overwrite the connection string in the project config file with the one, currently set in Entity Developer for the model, each time when regenerating code for the model
  • The behaviour is changed: "Save connection string in App.Config as" check box in Model Settings dialog box is renamed to "Use connection string from App.Config as"
  • The bug with the database script generation for the 'Delete Rule' association property is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.0.66 (Mar 15, 2013)

  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with an incorrect element order in the mappings files, when the model has both filter and sql query definitions, is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • Entity Framework 6 Alpha 3 is supported
  • The bug with detecting changes in the Collation attribute of the column in SSDL by Update Model From Database wizard is fixed (Oracle)
  • The bug with synchronizing the Int32 class property with the storage part of the model when using Oracle Data Provider for .NET is fixed (Oracle)
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The bug with obtaining DebuggerService when working with T4 Editor is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.0.56 (Feb 28, 2013)

  • The possibility of setting enum values via predefined dropdown list in the Retrieve Data window is implemented
  • The bug related to the "Index was outside the bounds of the array" error when creating models for SQL Server 2000 is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The behaviour is changed: the Guid property is mapped to the UUID type in the database when using the Model First approach (PostgreSQL)
  • The bug with using the Implement Cloneable property of the templates when generating code for abstract classes is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.0.43 (Feb 7, 2013)

  • NHibernate support:
  • The behaviour is changed: .NET auto-properties are generated in code if both Property ChangeNotifiers and Property Change Partial Methods properties of a template are set to False
  • The bug with resetting an enumeration type of a complex type property to a string type after reopening the model is fixed
  • The bug with generating unnecessary warning when using the "Include foreign key columns in the model" property of the model is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The behaviour is changed: Generate Database Script/Update Database From Model wizards generate column with the default value NEWSEQUENTIALID() for Guid property with 'Store Generated Pattern=Identity'
  • The behaviour is changed: warnings about tables/views without primary keys are written to Error List window when generating a model
  • The behaviour is changed: the EntityKey attribute is not assigned to each property of the class if there is no primary key in the corresponding table/view
  • The behaviour is changed: empty value is used in property editors instead of -1 for marking facets of Storage Column without assigned value
  • The bug with provider manifest token determined incorrectly when creating the model for Microsoft SQL Server 2012, if the "Entity Framework version" property of the model is not set to "Entity Framework 6.0", is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The bug related to executing stored procedures with only output parameters is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.0.28 (Jan 18, 2013)

  • NHibernate support:
  • The Lazy property of the "one" end of an association is implemented
  • The "Include foreign key columns in the model" property of the model is implemented
  • The generation of XML documentation for the code, which is created by Entity Developer, is improved
  • The bug with adding duplicate properties and associations in the child classes of the Table Per Hierarchy inheritance when updating model is fixed
  • The bug with generating fluent mapping code for the property with a default value, which is created in the database via CREATE DEFAULT statement, is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • Entity Framework 6 Alpha 2 is supported
  • The bug with generating a database type for the string property of a class is fixed (SQL Server Compact)
  • The bug with duplicate entries in the Base Class Condition and Derived Class Condition dropdowns of Inheritance Editor is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 5.0.9 (Dec 21, 2012)

  • The functionality of ignoring columns in the database in the "Update To/From Database" wizards if they were omitted once before is implemented
  • Warnings about objects that are not mapped are added
  • A SHIFT+DELETE keyboard shortcut for deleting entity, complex type, or enum from diagram only is added
  • An INSERT keyboard shortcut for creating a new entity, adding property to the selected entity/complex type or new member to enum is added
  • The possibility to view notes, added through the "Documentation" property, for all the diagram objects via hints is implemented
  • Hints for diagram objects are improved
  • NHibernate support:
  • DB2 database is supported
  • Model Refactoring feature is implemented; it speeds up creating complex types and Table Per Type and Table Per Concrete Type inheritances from several model entities
  • Entity Framework support:
  • Third-party providers for Entity Framework models are supported
  • DB2 database is supported
  • Model Refactoring feature is implemented; it speeds up creating complex types and Table Per Type and Table Per Concrete Type inheritances from several model entities
  • Create Storage and Mapping command, that allows automatically creating of the corresponding storage part object and defining mapping, is added to the shortcut menu of classes, properties, and associations
  • Select Storage Object command, that allows quick navigation to the corresponding storage part object, is added to the shortcut menu of classes, properties, associations, and methods
  • The possibility to delete the corresponding storage part objects automatically when deleting conceptual model objects is added
  • The naming algorithm for the newly-created columns, which correspond to complex type's properties, when using the Model First approach is improved
  • The Property Editor dialog is improved: fast access to the editor of the corresponding storage object and the possibility to specify different settings that were previously available only in the Properties docking window are implemented
  • The Inheritance Editor dialog is improved: specifying Discriminator column for Table Per Hierarchy inheritance in the editor is implemented
  • The Class Editor dialog is improved: fast access to the editor of the corresponding storage object is implemented
  • The Method Editor dialog is improved: fast access to the editor of the corresponding storage object is implemented
  • The behaviour is changed: Configure Behaviour dialog is renamed to Stored Procedure Mapping; options for hiding innapropriate and mapped stored procedures are added
  • The behaviour is changed: Table Editor dialog is renamed to Storage Entity Editor
  • The behaviour is changed: Stored Procedure Editor dialog is renamed to Storage Procedure Editor
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The behaviour is changed: Configure Behaviour dialog is renamed to Stored Procedure Mapping
  • The behavior is changed: now the 'Read Only' property is not set to true for autoincrement fields by default when creating/updating models

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.7.313 (Nov 30, 2012)

  • Entity Framework support:
  • The possibility to set different namespaces for the context and its entities when using the DbContext template is implemented
  • The bug with generating the using directives for redundant namespaces is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The bug with renaming the navigation property when using the Update Model From Database wizard is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.7.303 (Nov 15, 2012)

  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with the Model Settings dialog box working incorrectly when the Delete Cascade option has an incorrect value is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.7.295 (Nov 2, 2012)

  • The bug with availability of the Yes/No/Cancel options when saving models created with previous versions of Entity Developer is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with the exception being thrown when connecting to SQL Server Compact 4.0 is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with the exception being thrown when connecting to SQL Server Compact 4.0 is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.7.285 (Oct 19, 2012)

  • The support of SQL Server Compact 4.0 is added
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with generating property change notifiers in the derived classes is fixed
  • The bug with generating the Not Null column attribute in the xml-mapping file basing on the Nullable property is fixed
  • The bug with generating SQL for invoking stored procedure is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with retriving the Precision attribute of the stored procedure parameter from MSSQL Server database is fixed
  • The bug with disposing EntityCommand in the code generated for calling stored procedure is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The possibility of editing a custom return type of a stored procedure via the Edit context menu in Value Types Editor within Method Editor is added

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.7.277 (Oct 4, 2012)

  • Predefined template for generating Repositories and Unit of Work classes is added
  • Integration with Visual Studio refactoring for renaming model objects is implemented
  • The "Use Database Comments" option of Model Settings is implemented to determine whether comments for database objects, if supported by DBMS, will be used for model objects Documentation initialization and taken into account when executing model or database update operations
  • The "Implement IClonable" option for the generated classes based on the model entities is added to all templates
  • The bug with retrieving a list of SQL Server stored procedures when connecting to servers with dots in the name is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • Firebird database support is implemented
  • The possibility to work with a subselect query is implemented
  • The behaviour is changed: the possibility to set Collection Type and Collection Generic for all existing associations simultaneously when changing Default Collection Type and Default Collection Generic via Model Settings is implemented
  • The bug with detecting and workability of the Cascade association property is fixed
  • The bug with specifying Cache setting in the fluent mappings file is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The behaviour is changed: the "Save connection string in App.Config as" option is available in the standalone Entity Developer (the entry in App.Config must be added manually afterwards)

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.6.259 (Sep 6, 2012)

  • Visual Studio 2012 is supported
  • The bug with visibility of SQL Server CE tables in Create Model Wizard is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The Retrieve Data feature for the NHibernate Fluent template is implemented
  • The behaviour is changed: when separating a set of fields into a complex type, the custom mapping is now created for these fields
  • The bug with generating code for comparing instances of the inherited class is fixed
  • The bug with using third-party providers for MySQL when generating a model is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The functionality of importing the scale and precision parameters of the decimal column into the EntityProperty is implemented
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The bug with searching the predefined templates when working with SQL Server CE is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.5.240 (Aug 9, 2012)

  • The possibility to unload assemblies from the main application domain by using separate application domain is implemented
  • The possibility to disable such Database First Settings as type mapping rules is implemented
  • The design time copy/cut/paste functionality for enum members is added
  • The bug with generating the "This model has been modified outside of the editor. Do you want to reload it?" error when Entity Developer is integrated into TFS is fixed
  • The bug with integration into TFS is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with reading the not-null attribute of a column to assign the Nullable attribute of the corresponding property when importing hbm.xml into a model is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.4.222 (Jul 21, 2012)

  • NHibernate support:
  • The support of Named SQL queries is implemented
  • The possibility to work with stored procedures is implemented
  • The support for the "Where" parameter of the hilo generator is added
  • The bug with retrieving the Not Null parameter value of association's foreign key column when importing model from *.hbm.xml files is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The behaviour is changed: the warning, related to the missing property setter, is disabled
  • The behaviour is changed: for the association, in which the many-side entity hasn't the primary key, the code and the mapping are not generated
  • The behaviour is changed: the properties, that correspond autoincrement fields, are generated with a ReadOnly keyword in VB.NET

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.4.205 (Jul 21, 2012)

  • The "Pluralize collection navigation properties" option for the possibility to turn off the pluralization of the many-end names of associations is implemented
  • The bug with copy/pasting entities having a common relation is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with availability of Type Mapping Rules for all supported databases is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with generating redundant column in SSDL when setting one-to-one association in the designer is fixed
  • The bug with generating the MSL mapping for one-to-one association is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The bug with the displaying many-to-many associations in the Association Editor is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.4.197 (Jul 21, 2012)

  • Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate is supported
  • NHibernate support:
  • The "Default Collection Generic" model option for setting the default value of the generic property of the collection navigation properties is implemented
  • The behaviour is changed: only particular (not all) property characteristics are regenerated when using Update Model From Database wizard after the metadata of the corresponding column have been changed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with the failure to read the complex type's Access property value is fixed
  • The bug with saving *.edml when importing data from *.edmx is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • Support for Windows Phone 7 is added

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.4.186 (May 23, 2012)

  • The sticker notes for adding comments to diagrams are implemented
  • The possibility to add a stamp, specifying diagram author, company, version, copyrights, project name, and date, to a diagram is implemented
  • New Collapse All and Expand All menu commands for collapsing and expanding diagram shapes are added
  • The behaviour is changed: context menu commands for working with diagram are grouped to the Diagram submenu of the context menu
  • The behaviour is changed: the possibility to change diagram shape color via the corresponding Shape -> Color context menu command is added
  • The behaviour is changed: when pasting a copied entity to a new diagram, a new entity is not created, the existing entity is added to this diagram
  • The behaviour is changed: when cutting an entity from the diagram, the entity is not cut from the model, only from the diagram
  • NHibernate support:
  • The support of component navigation properties is implemented
  • The Parent property for component mappings is implemented
  • The possibility to specify default facets for the columns is implemented
  • The possibility to set path to NHibernate assemblies is implemented
  • The "none" option for the Access property is implemented
  • The bug with incorrect fluent mapping of extra columns of a many-to-many association table to the component in NHibernate models is fixed
  • The bug with incorrect generation of a script, creating extra columns of a many-to-many association join table, which are separated to a component, is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The behaviour is changed: "Update Model From Database" wizard places newly added properties to the base abstract class now instead of putting them into child classes (where the mapping is)
  • The behaviour is changed: the CSDL property is left unchanged when the corresponding SSDL property is regenerated
  • The behaviour is changed: the association names are generated basing on the database FK names when using Database First approach
  • The bug with reading one-to-many associations from the *.edmx file is fixed
  • The bug with "DevartEntityDeploy" task when only .NET Framework 4 is installed is fixed
  • The bug with closing connection in the generated method of the context is fixed
  • The bug with generating code using DbContext template, when template's Fluent Mapping property is set to True and one of the navigation properties of an association is turned off, is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The bug with incorrect saving of method's extended properties is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.3.178 (May 23, 2012)

  • The multiline popup editor for the Documentation.Summary property is implemented
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with saving a class property type incorrectly when this type was set to enum is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with metadata processing in Visual Studio 11 Beta is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.3.169 (May 23, 2012)

  • The behaviour is changed: the Migrate option is added to the context menu of property in Model Explorer
  • The behaviour is changed: entities and enums on the designer surface are more resizable now
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with detecting many-to-many associations is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The bug with creating LINQ to SQL models is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.3.159 (May 23, 2012)

  • The bug with model saving after performing copy/paste of an element with a custom attribute is fixed
  • The bug with Default Value quotation for the BIT type is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The bug with creating invalid constraints for crossing foreign key columns in Table Per Hierarchy (TPH) when generating schema is fixed
  • Entity Framework support:
  • The bug with incorrect generation of a create database script in the "Generate Database Script" wizard, which occurs when the Regenerate Storage check box is selected, is fixed
  • The bug with code generation for association basing on several EntityKey properties when using POCO Entity and Self-Tracking Entity Visual Basic templates is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The bug with generation of the return type for methods that match the database stored procedures is fixed
  • The bug with the "Update Model From Database" wizard showing isVersion columns as changed is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.3.152 (Mar 26, 2012)

  • 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
  • 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
  • The "Generate" extended property, which allows disabling code generation for entity properties and complex type properties, is renamed to "Unimplemented" now
  • The default behaviour is changed: Discriminator Value is set to Not Null for base abstract classes by default now
  • The output order of the "Class" drop-down list elements for the "End 2" in the Association Editor is changed: classes and complex types are grouped to the corresponding groups

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.2.129 (Feb 11, 2012)

  • Materialized view support is added
  • The bug with preserving the Validate Required property when saving the model is fixed
  • The bug with Entity Developer tool windows being shown when debugging an application is fixed
  • The bug with diagram representation in x64 environment is fixed
  • NHibernate support:
  • The new messages for an inheritance validation are added
  • The behaviour is changed: the Inverse option on the many-side of a one-to-many relationship is set to True by default now
  • The behaviour is changed: "Getter Modifier" and "Setter Modifier" code generation properties are added for entity navigation properties instead of the "Modifier" property
  • The bug with script generation when there is an entity in the model that has several complex type properties of the same complex type is fixed
  • The bug with wrong error handling when choosing the complex type in the "Class" drop-down for the "End 2" in the Association Editor is fixed
  • LINQ to SQL support:
  • The bug with the custom tool for Devart LINQ to SQL models is fixed

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 4.0.15 (Jul 14, 2011)

  • The possibility to export the diagram into an image file is added
  • NHibernate support is added
  • Entity Framework support
  • The changes in the Entity name are now preserved by Update From Database Wizard
  • The possibility to restrict adding the connection string information to the application configuration file is added
  • LINQ to SQL support
  • The possibility to restrict adding the connection string information to the application configuration file is added

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 3.50.128 (May 28, 2011)

  • New Templates are added:
  • LINQ to SQL: POCO template with XML mapping generation
  • Entity Framework: POCO template, Self-Tracking template, DbContext template with fluent mapping generation
  • Templates usability is improved
  • Template Editor is significantly improved
  • Ability to declare additional properties for model objects is added
  • Ability to specify .NET attributes for model objects is added
  • The "Preserve schema name in storage" option is added

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 3.20.81 (Feb 21, 2011)

  • Added possibility to split model into several diagrams for better handling of large models

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 3.0.65 (Jan 18, 2011)

  • Supported Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta
  • Update To Database with Storage Synchronization functionality added
  • Added Update Model From Database functionality
  • Added multiselect support for properties
  • Improved large models handling

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 2.50.51 (Dec 8, 2009)

  • Fixed bug with the Custom.After.Microsoft.Common.targets file appending
  • Fixed bug with inheritance and primary keys

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 2.50.50 (Dec 8, 2009)

  • New T4 like template engine with powerful editor added
  • Updated code generation:
  • Ability to generate separate files for classes added
  • Entity Framework Pregenerated Views support added
  • Improved null handling code generation
  • Ability to execute LINQ and Entity SQL queries with data and native sql preview added
  • Ability to preview and edit data displayed in Database Explorer added
  • Table splitting added (emulation of deferred loading for "large" datatypes in EF)
  • OnDelete support for associations added
  • Corrected the setting of Source and Table attribute for non-database objects
  • Fixed bug with attach_Entity methods
  • Fixed bug with access and inheritance modifiers for properties
  • Fixed bug with out-parameters of stored procedures
  • Fixed bug with procedures returning nullable types
  • Fixed bug with ProviderManifestToken

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 2.20.43 (Dec 8, 2009)

  • Fixed bug with wrong IDE configuration path
  • Fixed bug with VS template
  • Fixed bug with model placed in non-root project folder

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 2.20.38 (Dec 8, 2009)

  • Added support for EF Precision and Scale facets
  • Improved MS EDM Designer compatibility
  • Fixed bug with using Entity Developer in Web Site projects

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 2.20.37 (Dec 8, 2009)

  • Added design time support for some EF facets
  • Enabled adding Schema name as prefix
  • Fixed bug with the connection reopen on refresh

New in Entity Developer Professional Edition 2.20.35 (Aug 11, 2009)

  • Fixed bug with Entity Set pluralization naming rule
  • Fixed bug with EntitySet property deserialization
  • Fixed bug with Source property for the added classes
  • Fixed bug with connection string quotation for the standalone projects
  • Fixed bug with the serialization of property accessors