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9.3.10 17-Jan-24

.NET 8 compatibility
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.9 Preview is supported

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 8.0.0 is supported
Entity Framework Core 7.0.14 is supported
Entity Framework Core 6.0.25 is supported

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

.NET 8 compatibility

Entity Developer

EF Core 8 is added to the list of available Entity Framework versions in Create Model Wizard and Model Settings in EF Core Model
.NET 8 is added to the list of available Target Framework versions in Create Model Wizard and Model Settings in EF, EF Core, and LinqConnect models
The new extended property Do Not Generate OnConfiguring Method is added for the model in EF Core Model
The bug with naming of local variables in the code generated for invoking stored procedures and functions with parameters in EF Core is fixed
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
The hang of Visual Studio 2022 when saving the model is fixed

9.2.0 16-Nov-23

MariaDB 11 is supported
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 Preview is supported
The error during installation on the 32-bit version of Windows has been fixed
The bug with inserting milliseconds via prepared command is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 7.0.5 is supported
Entity Framework Core 6.0.16 is supported
The bug with throwing "Unexpected null value in SQL fragments", when LINQ query has multiple .Include() with spatial DbGeometry and DbGeography properties, in EF4/EF5/EF6 is fixed
The bug with throwing Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore.Infrastructure.ManyServiceProvidersCreatedWarning by the UseMySql(DbConnection connection) extension method of DbContextOptionsBuilder in EF Core 6 and EF Core 7 is fixed
The bug with using custom converters in mapping in EF Core 3 and higher is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with detecting TINYINT(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 1 as function-based column default value in EF Core Model is fixed
The bug with detecting TINYINT(1) NOT NULL DEFAULT 1 as function-based column default value in EF Core Model is fixed
The bug with detecting the numeric default value of string columns as function-based column default value in EF Core Model is fixed

9.1.151 01-Jun-23

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7 Preview is supported
The bug with SSL certificates in .NET Standard (.NET Core) Projects is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 7.0.5 is supported
Entity Framework Core 6.0.16 is supported
The bug with generating parameter prefixed by a double colon in EF Core 7 is fixed
The bug with incorrect SQL translation of reused LINQ query, which includes array.Contains() and other expressions, in EF Core 5/6/7 is fixed

Entity Developer

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 missing model context namespace in EntityFrameworkUnitOfWork.cs produced by the Repository And Unit of Work template (C#) in EF Core is fixed

9.1.134 01-Mar-23

Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 Preview is supported
.NET 7 compatibility
The сonnection to MySQL 8 and MariaDB via SSH using SHA-256/512 algorithms is supported

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 7.0.2 is supported
Entity Framework Core 6.0.13 is supported
Entity Framework Core 3.1.32 is supported

Entity Developer

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

9.0.0 30-Jun-22

.NET 6 compatibility.
macOS 11 Arm64 (or "Apple Silicon" or "Apple M1") support
Windows 11 is supported.
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2 is supported.
Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3 Preview is supported.

Entity framework:

Entity Framework Core 6.0.5 is supported.
Entity Framework Core 5.0.17 is supported.
Entity Framework Core 3.1.25 is supported.

Entity Developer:

64-bit version of standalone Entity Developer application is added.
64-bit version of console Entity Developer application is added.

8.21.2066 25-Jan-22

Entity Developer

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
The behavior is changed: Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.EF5.dll compiled with .NET Framework 4.7 is used now in EF5 models

Entity Framework support

Mapping of internet/intranet data type System.Uri to MySQL string data types is supported in EF Core 3, EF Core 5, EF Core 6
Mapping of network data types System.Net.IPAddress and System.Net.NetworkInformation.PhysicalAddress to MySQL string data types is supported in EF Core 5 and EF Core 6
The SQL translation of the following class members used in the LINQ query is supported in EF Core 3, EF Core 5, EF Core 6:

static method IsNullOrWhiteSpace() of the String class
static property Today and instance property DayOfWeek of the DateTime class
static methods Sqrt(), Max(), Min(), Log(), Log10(), Sin(), Cos(), Tan(), Asin(), Acos(), Atan(), Atan2() of the Math class

The SQL translation of the following class members used in LINQ query is supported in EF Core 5 and EF Core 6:

static methods Abs(), Round(), Truncate(), Floor(), Ceiling(), Pow(), Sqrt(), Max(), Min(), Log(), Log10(), Sin(), Cos(), Tan(), Asin(), Acos(), Atan(), Atan2() of the MathF class

The SQL translation of the following class members used in the LINQ query is supported in EF Core 6:

static method Log2() of the Math and MathF classes

The new \Entity\EF5\net47\Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.EF5.dll assembly compiled with .NET Framework 4.7 is added
The new \Entity\EF5\net47\Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.Migrations.EF5.dll assembly compiled with .NET Framework 4.7 is added
The new \Entity\EF5\net47\Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.Spatials.EF5.dll assembly compiled with .NET Framework 4.7 is added
The new methods ExtractAsByte(), ExtractAsSByte(), ExtractAsInt16(), ExtractAsInt32(), ExtractAsInt64(), ExtractAsSingle(), ExtractAsDouble(), ExtractAsDecimal(), ExtractAsDateTime() are added to the MySqlJsonFunctions class for working with the JSON data type in LINQ to Entities queries
The bug with generating the "Value cannot be null" error when dropping indexes via Code-First Migrations in EF Core is fixed
The bug with a materialization used within the Let operator of LINQ query in EF6 is fixed
The bug with using .Contains with a collection within .Select of LINQ query in EF Core 2 is fixed

8.20.2042 21-Dec-21

The bug with reading SSL certificates from MemCryptStorage is fixed

Entity Developer

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

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 6.0.1 is supported
Entity Framework Core 5.0.13 is supported
Entity Framework Core 3.1.22 is supported
NetTopologySuite 2.4.0 is supported in EF Core 3, EF Core 5, and EF Core 6
The bug with throwing the "Expression in SQL tree does not have type mapping assigned" error with NetTopologySuite in EF Core is fixed
The bug with generating the "Value cannot be null" error when adding or dropping FK via Code-First Migrations in EF Core is fixed

8.19.2014 09-Nov-21

Entity Developer

The bug with parsing discriminator value as string, even when its type is different, in TPH inheritance of EF Core Model is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 5.0.12 is supported
Entity Framework Core 3.1.21 is supported
The bug with ignoring .HasComputedColumnSql value by EnsureCreated() in EF Core is fixed

8.19.2001 21-Oct-21

Visual Studio 2019 Preview support is discontinued
The bug with throwing Devart.Common.LicenseException, when Devart.Data.MySql.dll is embedded into a single file application, is fixed
The bug with applying .NET Standard licensing to .NET 6 projects is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with launching Entity Developer after applying Windows 10 Update KB5006670 and Windows 11 Update KB5006674 is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with parsing TypeName values in XML mapping generated by Visual Basic template is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 5.0.11 is supported
Entity Framework Core 3.1.20 is supported
The implementation of config.CodeFirstOptions.TruncateLongDefaultNames in EF6 .NET Standard compliant assemblies is improved: the generated names are constant, independent on a current domain and workstation
The bug with using DateTime.Now, DateTime.UtcNow, DateTimeOffset.Now within LINQ query in EF Core 5 is fixed

8.19.1985 28-Sep-21

Entity Developer

The new property Validation Framework is implemented in the Data Transfer Object template for generating DataAnnotations attributes
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 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 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

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 5.0.10 is supported
Entity Framework Core 3.1.19 is supported
Mapping of System.Decimal to MySQL DECIMAL with specified precision and scale in EF Core 5 is supported
The definition of System.ICloneable is removed from .NET Framework assembly \Entity\EFCore3\Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.EFCore.dll

8.19.1944 30-Jul-21

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The new methods IsNotDistinctFrom() and IsDistinctFrom() are added to the Devart.Data.Linq.SqlMethods class

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 5.0.8 is supported
Entity Framework Core 3.1.17 is supported

8.19.1930 08-Jul-21

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 Preview 2.0 is supported

Entity Developer

The behavior of the Regenerate Storage and Mapping functionality in EF Core Model 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 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

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 5.0.7 is supported
Entity Framework Core 3.1.16 is supported
The bug with comparing enum values in EF Core 3 and EF Core 5 is fixed
The bug with .Contains and .Length in EF Core 3 and EF Core 5, when using NetTopologySuite spatial functionality, is fixed

8.19.1905 03-Jun-21

A new connection string parameter BinaryUuidOrder that allows using binary MySQL UUID order of bytes when converting binary(16) to System.Guid is added

Entity Developer

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
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 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
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

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 5.0.6 is supported
Entity Framework Core 3.1.15 is supported
The EF6 provider registration used with .NET Framework compliant assemblies is improved: the [DbConfigurationType(typeof(MySqlEntityProviderServicesConfiguration))] attribute set for DbContext descendant allows now calling the DbContext constructor, that accepts a connection string, with no need to register a custom IDbConnectionFactory implementation
The bug with connection recovery after the initial connection attempt failure in EF Core is fixed

8.19.1866 09-Apr-21

Entity Developer

The new hotkey Alt+E is implemented in Property Editor for opening Column Editor in EF Core Model
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
The bug with adding tables to a model by Create Model Wizard, when the Database connection string parameter is not set, is fixed

8.19.1860 01-Apr-21

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.10 Preview is supported
Using SslStream to create SSL connections for .NET Standard (.NET Core) Projects is implemented
Additional mode of parameter substitution in the query in the SSIS Data Flow Source component: substitution as is, without escaping
The bug with a DateTime variable in the SSIS Source component is fixed

Entity Developer

.NET 6.0 is added to the list of available Target Framework versions in Create Model Wizard and Model Settings in EF Core, EF6, LinqConnect models
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 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 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 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
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

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 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 creating app.config in Visual Studio .NET Core projects is fixed
The bug with detecting the existing classes with QueryType=True by Update From Database Wizard in EF Core Model 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

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 5.0.4 is supported
Entity Framework Core 3.1.13 is supported

8.19.1836 18-Feb-21

The new command line option /disablegac that disables adding assemblies to GAC is added

Entity Developer

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

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 5.0.3 is supported
Entity Framework Core 3.1.12 is supported
The bug with translating Enum.HasFlag to SQL in EF Core 3 and EF Core 5 is fixed

8.19.1812 14-Jan-21

The bug with blocking thread during retrieving a connection from the pool, when connections from the same pool are used in several threads, is fixed

Entity Developer

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 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
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
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 bug with setting additional keyboard mapping scheme via menu Options on Windows with German display language is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The new property Local is added to the Table and Table<T> classes to return a collection of the entities attached to the context
The new method GetEntityState(object entity) is added to Table class and ITable interface to return one of the EntityState values
The bug with throwing "Bad key member '...' in association '...' of type '...'." in runtime by .NET Standard compliant assemblies is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 5.0.2 is supported
Entity Framework Core 3.1.11 is supported
The new metadata to describe autoincremental columns via annotations in EF Core Code-First Migrations are implemented

8.19.1792 17-Dec-20

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 5.0.1 is supported
The bug with creating savepoints in EF Core 5 is fixed

8.19.1782 03-Dec-20

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 Preview is supported
The bug with updating projects that reference EF6 provider assembly via Upgrade Wizard is fixed

Entity Developer

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 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
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

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 5.0 is supported
Entity Framework Core 3.1.10 is supported
The behavior is changed: EF Core 3 assemblies available via NuGet package are compiled for .NET Standard 2.0 instead of .NET Standard 2.1
The behavior is changed: EF Core 2 assemblies are no longer available via NuGet package but created in the provider installation folder
The bug with using another context's connection in DbContextOptionsBuilder.UseMySql(connection) in EF Core is fixed

8.18.1759 29-Oct-20

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 missing Name and Owner properties of the MySqlConnection class in .NET Standard compliant assemblies is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with reading templates from *.edps by console Entity Developer is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 3.1.9 is supported

8.18.1739 01-Oct-20

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Preview is supported

Entity Developer

EF Core 3 spatial data types support is improved: in addition to Geometry and Geography, specific .NET NetTopologySuite types like GeographyPoint, GeographyLine are now available property types
The default mapping for spatial data types in Server's Options is updated
The bug with throwing "EntityProperty does not contain a definition for IsSpatialType", when custom template from previous versions is used, in EF Core Model is fixed
The bug with applying On Delete Action=Cascade set in Association Editor to the Generate Database Script functionality in EF Core Model is fixed
The bug with reading settings from *.edps by console Entity Developer is fixed

Entity Framework support

The bug with throwing System.NullReferenceException by the Code-First CreateDatabase() / Code-First Migrations functionality in EF Core is fixed
The bug with reading boolean values by LINQ queries with multiple .Include() in EF4/EF5/EF6 is fixed

8.18.1730 17-Sep-20

The SendCallStack property is added to the Devart.Common.DbMonitor class for possibility to turn off resource-demanding logging of CallStack
The Filter property is added to the Devart.Common.DbMonitor class for possibility to choose events being logged
The Devart.Common.DbMonitor class is improved: now values of the DateTime parameters sent to the dbMonitor tool are supplemented with milliseconds
The bug with updating projects in folders below the main project by Upgrade Wizard is fixed

Entity Developer

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
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

Entity Framework support

Support for spatial data types in EF Core 3 is implemented
The new names of spatial functions in MySQL Server 8 are supported in EF5/EF6 provider
Entity Framework Core 3.1.8 is supported
The new NuGet package Devart.Data.MySql.EFCore.NetTopolosySuite with a .NET Standard 2.1 assembly, that is compatible with .NET Core 3, is added
The new \Entity\EFCore3\Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.EFCore.NetTopolosySuite.dll assembly compiled with EF Core 3.1 and .NET Framework 4.6.1 is added
The MySqlFunctions class, which allows using MySQL-specific functions in LINQ to Entities, is supported in EF Core
The MySqlTextFunctions class, which allows using MySQL full-text search functionality in LINQ to Entities, is supported in EF Core

8.17.1696 30-Jul-20

Entity Developer

The bug with throwing System.NullReferenceException when opening *.edmx with invalid associations is fixed

8.17.1686 16-Jul-20

The MySqlDependency constructor and AddCommandDependency overload, specifying how MySqlDependency should check command tables for changes, are added to MySqlDependency class along with the corresponding MySqlDependencyCheckTime enum

Entity Developer

The bug with detecting FK relationships to tables in other schemas by Create Model Wizard and Update From Database Wizard is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The "Could not find element type in model" bug when loading XML mapping in .NET Standard LinqConnect assemblies is fixed
The bug with using enums via .NET Standard compliant assemblies is fixed

Entity Framework support

The bug with incorrect SQL generation when using .Substring() in a .Select() statement in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with reading the BINARY(16) column mapped to the byte[] class property, when "Binary As Guid=True;" is set in the connection string, in EF Core is fixed

8.17.1666 17-Jun-20

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.7 Preview is supported
The bug with mapping INT without explicitly specified display width is fixed

Entity Developer

.NET 5 is added to the list of available Target Framework versions in Create Model Wizard and Model Settings in EF6, EF Core, LinqConnect 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 Primitive Default Value Generation property is added to EF, EF Core templates to determine whether to generate initialization for a primitive property based on database DEFAULT column value
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 property "Nullable Reference Types" is added to C# templates of EF, EF Core models to specify whether C# 8 nullable reference types and non-nullable reference types must be generated
The new partial method is added to the OnModelCreating(DbModelBuilder modelBuilder) method generated by DbContext template of EF model
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 models is supported when Primitive Default Value Generation=LiteralOrExpression
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
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 MySQL being quoted by Entity Developer is updated
The DbProviderFactories registration is implemented in Create Model Wizard for EF6 models and .NET Framework provider assemblies
The new property Target Framework is added to Create Model Wizard and Model Settings of EF6 models
The compatibility issue with JetBrains ReSharper is fixed
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 behavior for the new EF, EF Core 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 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 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 detecting strings, being expressions, as string literals when generating initialization of string properties basing on database columns' default values in EF, EF Core 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 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 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 retrieving metadata of string columns' default values in MySQL 8 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
The bug with generating new Guid() with Primitive Default Value Generation=Literal in EF, EF Core models is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with materializing elements, the types of which are explicitly converted from non-nullable to nullable on the client side, is fixed
The bug with incorrect detection of altered column comment in a many-to-many association join table by Update From Database Wizard is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework 6.4.4 is supported
The translation of the DateTime.AddMinutes() method in LINQ query into SQL statement in EF Core is supported
The EF6 provider registration used with .NET Standard compliant assemblies is improved: the [DbConfigurationType(typeof(MySqlEntityProviderServicesConfiguration))] attribute set for DbContext descendant allows now calling the DbContext constructor, that accepts a connection string, with no need to register a custom IDbConnectionFactory implementation
The bug with adding / subtracting DateTime and TimeSpan, DateTimeOffset and TimeSpan values in LINQ query in EF Core 3 is fixed
The bug with SQL generation in EF Core 3, when enum values are used in CASE and COALESCE statements, is fixed

8.17.1612 02-Apr-20

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The insert of the object, the type of which is an unmapped class inherited from a mapped class, is supported
The bug with throwing System.NullReferenceException, when constructing the error saying that unmapped class is not supported, is fixed

Entity Developer

Command-line interface is implemented in a standalone Entity Developer
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
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
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

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 3.1.3 is supported
The .ToString() call for numbers, DateTime/DateTimeOffset properties and values in LINQ queries in EF Core is supported
The call of Convert.ToString(value) in LINQ queries in EF Core is supported

8.17.1583 20-Feb-20

SQL Server Integration Services 2019 (SSIS 2019) is supported
The MySqlDataTable and MySqlDataSet classes are supported in .NET Standard 2.0
The behavior is changed: pool is automatically cleared when AppDomain is being closed
The bug with initializing NHibernate configuration on .NET Standard 2.0 is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with returning multiple result sets in code generated by the EF Core template is fixed
The bug with detecting MySQL computed columns is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 3.1.1 is supported
The bug with using nullable enum properties with default mapping to integers in LINQ query in EF Core 3.1 is fixed
The bug with using value converters detected automatically by .HasConversion<string>() in EF Core 3 is fixed
The bug with using NULL constant values in EF Core 3 is fixed
The bug with using binary operators AND, OR in EF Core 3 is fixed

8.16.1541 23-Dec-19

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview is supported
The bug with using Toolbox component MySqlDataSource in web projects of Visual Studio 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 is fixed
The bug with enabling Devart DataSet Editor in Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2019 is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with using Toolbox component DbLinqDataSource in web projects of Visual Studio 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 is fixed

Entity Developer

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

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework 6.4 is supported
Entity Framework Core 3.1 is supported
The new \Entity\EFCore3\Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.EFCore.dll assembly compiled with EF Core 3.1 and .NET Framework 4.6.1 is added
The new config.CodeFirstOptions.TruncateAllLongNames option (default value is False) is added to use EF Core 2/EF Core 3 implementation for truncating long names of columns and PK/FK/IX/UX
The config.DatabaseScript.ForeignKey.IndexCreation configuration option is supported in EF Core 1/EF Core 2/EF Core 3
The RenameColumn operation translated to ALTER TABLE RENAME COLUMN is supported for MySQL 8.0 and higher via Code-First Migrations in EF4/EF5/EF6/EF Core 1/EF Core 2/EF Core 3
The behavior is changed: System.Decimal is mapped now to MySQL data type DECIMAL(58,29) instead of DECIMAL by Code-First Migrations in EF Core 1/EF Core 2/EF Core 3
The bug with creating a unique constraint in the database via EF Core Code-First Migrations is fixed
The bug with applying .ValueGeneratedOnAdd() to the string, guid, byte[] properties with .Key() and without .HasDefaultValueSql() in EF Core is fixed
The error message with notification about missing annotation for the RenameColumn operation translated to ALTER TABLE CHANGE COLUMN in case of MySQL versions lower than 8.0 is fixed
The bug with detecting implicit database column type, when model mapping and migration mapping are different, via EF Core Code-First Migrations is fixed
The bug with generating SQL when using explicit cast in LINQ queries in EF Core 1/EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with throwing the "Null TypeMapping in Sql Tree" error by methods in LINQ query in EF Core 3 is fixed

8.15.1519 21-Nov-19

The "Optimize rendering for screens with different pixel densities" feature of Visual Studio 2019 is supported by Devart DataSet Editor
The bug with inserting fractional seconds of TIME, DATETIME, and TIMESTAMP values via parameters of a stored procedure is fixed

Entity Developer

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
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

Entity Framework support

The SQL generation in case of config.QueryOptions.UseCSharpNullComparisonBehavior=true in EF1/EF4/EF5/EF6 is improved
The bug with using Scaffold-DbContext in EF Core 3 is fixed
The bug with the redundant empty ORDER BY clause in a subquery, when paging is used, in EF Core 3 is fixed
The bug with using .Contains within .Select of LINQ query in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with generating invalid SQL when calling members of owned type in EF Core 2 is fixed

8.15.1504 31-Oct-19

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 Preview is supported

Entity Developer

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

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 2.2.6 is supported

8.15.1499 24-Oct-19

The "Optimize rendering for screens with different pixel densities" feature of Visual Studio 2019 is supported by Devart DataSet Manager

Entity Developer

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
The DbProviderFactories.RegisterFactory method is generated when UseDbConfigurationTypeAttribute=true and ConfigurationTypeName='%Default%'
With UseDbConfigurationTypeAttribute=false, the static constructor for registering factory and the new partial method OnStaticConfigured are generated

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 lock for Microsoft.EntityFrameworkCore dependency is added to the NuGet package Devart.Data.MySql.EFCore
The bug with adding the datetime precision to the generated queries in EF6 is fixed

8.14.1470 12-Sep-19

The integration with Visual Studio 2019 is improved: now the installation detects both 2019 Release and 2019 Preview versions

Entity Developer

Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 9 is supported for projects with target framework .NET Core 3 or .NET Standard 2.1
The behaviour is changed: a plural form of names ending with "s" now has a longer version (for example, status -> statuses)
The bug with applying the new Foreign Key's Delete Rule values SET DEFAULT and SET NULL by the Update Database From Model and Update Model From Database wizards is fixed (Entity Framework)
The bug with copying a property with Primary Key=True / Entity Key=True to a complex type is fixed (Entity Framework)
The bug with naming of a composing unique key by Create Model Wizard / Update From Database Wizard in EF Core is fixed (Entity Framework)
The bug with invalid attempt to cast unsupported Visual Studio project to type 'VSLangProj.VSProject' is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework 6.3 Preview 9 is supported
A new NuGet package Devart.Data.MySql.EF6 with a .NET Standard 2.1 assembly, compatible with .NET Core 3, is added
The bug with using the same database connection in several EF Core contexts is fixed
The bug with applying a value converter to .Where expression with .Contains on nullable enum in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with converting binary(16) to System.Guid in EF6 is fixed

8.13.1437 25-July-19

Entity Framework support

The bug with applying a value converter to a nullable column in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with applying config.QueryOptions.ComparisonCollation to the update statements in EF6 is fixed

8.13.1422 04-July-19

The bug with throwing "Operation is not supported" by web providers, when the cookie is used, is fixed

Entity Developer

The ability to disable generation of the byte order mark (BOM) in the beginning of code files in a standalone Entity Developer is implemented
The bug with design time copy/cut/paste functionality for entities is fixed
The bug with invalid integer to enum conversion by a generated method, which is based on SQL query and returns a collection of entities, in EF Core 2 is fixed

Entity Framework support

The bug with applying a filter to the nullable property with implicit EnumToStringConverter via LINQ queries in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with missing brackets around SELECT inside the generated CASE statement in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with nullable parameters in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with reopening connections in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with adding unnecessary CASTs to the generated SQL when working with DateTime, numeric columns and expressions in EF Core is fixed
The bug with incorrect exception message on opening connection, when ConnectionString is not set, by .NET Standard compliant assemblies is fixed

8.13.1402 06-Jun-19

Deprecated design-time Synchronous API calls are no longer used with Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio 2017

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with executing incorrect SQL request (cached during one of the previous calls), when a variable initialized with an empty collection participates in LINQ query, is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 2.2.4 is supported
The bug with closing database connection by context.Dispose() in the scope of a distributed transaction in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with using a value converter, when the .NET data type remains the same, within the WHERE clause in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with setting default values for the DateTime and TimeSpan columns in the ALTER statements in EF Core 2 Code-First Migrations is fixed

8.13.1366 11-Apr-19

Visual Studio 2019 is supported

Entity Developer

The bug with processing DBNull returned by the function in EF Core is fixed

Entity Framework support

The bug with using the "Generate Database from Model" wizard when working with Entity Framework 6 Tools is fixed

8.12.1357 28-Mar-19

Visual Studio 2019 Release Candidate 4 is supported
The bug with corrupting not Latin-1 characters by Migration Wizard for files with non-unicode encoding is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with the Regenerate Storage / Generate Database Script / Update Database Script From Model functionality for the Geometry and Geography properties in EF5 / EF6 is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 2.2.3 is supported
The SQL translation of the following method overloads, that accept the StringComparison argument and return bool, in the System.String class is supported in EF Core 2: Contains, StartsWith, EndsWith, Equals
The bug with inserting and updating string data, when config.QueryOptions.NullStringCollation is initialized, is fixed
The bug with generating the COALESCE expression in EF Core is fixed
The bug with calling DbExecutionStrategy.ShouldRetryOn(Exception), when the first connection fails to open, is fixed

8.12.1328 14-Feb-19

Connection to MySQL 8.0 is supported in the Express edition
The bug with MySqlLoader.LoadTable(IDataReader) for .NET Standard 1.3 and .NET Standard 2 is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with executing incorrect SQL request (cached during one of the previous calls), when .Contains() is invoked in the multithreaded application, is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with quoting keywords and reserved words of MySQL 8.0 is fixed
The bug with generating fluent mapping for the one-to-one association by the DbContext template in EF4/EF5/EF6 is fixed

Entity Framework support

The translation of single-char literal into SQL statement in EF Core is supported
The bug with using a value converter for the property used in .Contains() in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with translating String.IndexOf() into SQL statement in EF Core is fixed
The bug with updating a null value of the concurrency check column with some non-null value in EF Core is fixed

8.12.1307 10-Jan-19

The behavior is changed: now "Unicode=true;" sets client character set to utf8mb4 for MySQL Server 5.5.3 and higher
The bug with connecting to database with .NET Standard 1.3 compatible assemblies on .NET Framework 4.6.0 run-time is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The new overload DataContext.Refresh(bool ignoreErrors, RefreshMode mode, object entity) is added for ignoring errors during refresh
The existing overload DataContext.Refresh(RefreshMode mode, object entity) is improved: its check avoids the try to refresh the entity that is added to the context but not submitted to the database
The type and text of the error generated by the DataContext.Refresh(RefreshMode mode, object entity) method, when the passed entity doesn't exist in database, is fixed
The bug with generating the COALESCE expression is fixed

Entity Developer

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
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

Entity Framework Core 2.2.1 is supported
The new extension method Database.IsMySql() in EF Core 2 is implemented
The config.QueryOptions.NullStringCollation option is implemented to use the COLLATE operator with a required collation when comparing null strings in "equal" and "not equal" cases
The bug with applying config.Workarounds.IgnoreSchemaName=true to the .ToTable() functionality in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bugs with using the GuidToStringConverter, EnumToStringConverter, ValueConverter classes in EF Core 2 are fixed
The bug with constructing the LIKE clause in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with generating a subselect within the SELECT list in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with applying an aggregate function to the result of a subselect in EF Core 2 is fixed

8.12.1278 29-Nov-18

Access to the aspnet_membership table is optimized
The bug with the incorrect type of the "Comment" column in the metadata table, returned by the MySqlConnection.GetSchema("Procedures",...) method or DESCRIBE query for MySQL 8.0, is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with throwing "Operation could destabilize the runtime." during materialization of result set, when query includes a cast to the base unmapped class, is fixed

Entity Developer

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 DateTime.Now for the DateTime property mapped to the column with the default value NOW() 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 NOW() is supported in EF and EF Core
The bug with generating fluent mapping for the TPC inheritance by VB.NET version of DbContext template in EF4/EF5/EF6 is fixed

Entity Framework support

The bug with quoting the table alias, that includes an invalid character, in the SQL query generated by EF Core is fixed
The bug with generating a subquery within the IN clause in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with generating a subselect within the CASE clause in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with comparing columns, that use a value converter, to parameters and constants in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with loading both Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.EF4.dll and Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.EF5.dll in the process of EF4 application is fixed
The bug with loosing precision of DateTimeOffset properties in EF6 / EF Core Code-First is fixed
The bug with quoting the zero date default value in the generated SQL by CreateDatabase() in EF4/EF5/EF6 is fixed

8.12.1253 25-Oct-18

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with updating the existing entities that participate in FK associations is fixed in .NET Standard 2 compliant assemblies

Entity Developer

The bug with throwing "Custom tool error: bufferAdapter is not a VsTextDocData" in .NET Standard projects is fixed
The bug with adding references to the provider assemblies when creating Entity Framework 5 model is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 2.1.4 is supported
The bit-wise functions OR, AND in EF Core are supported
The bug with throwing "Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute" by EF Core provider in multithreaded applications is fixed
The bug with applying the "Binary As Guid=True;" and "Tiny As Boolean=True;" connection string options by Scaffold-DbContext in EF Core is fixed
The bug with using the "Tiny As Boolean=True;" connection string parameter by EDM Wizard/EF Tools in EF1/EF4/EF5/EF6 is fixed
The bug with applying explicit name of FK within CREATE TABLE in EF Code-First Migrations is fixed

8.12.1229 20-Sep-18

The bug with absent Devart.Data.MySql.NHibernate.NHibernateMySqlConnection and Devart.Data.MySql.NHibernate.NHibernateMySqlCommand classes in the .Net Core NuGet package is fixed

Entity Developer

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>
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

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 2.1.3 is supported
The bug with throwing an error by context.Database.Migrate(), when the __EFMigrationsHistory table already exists but tables being mapped by model classes are not created yet, in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with a memory leak in EF Core 2, when a connection is set for DbContext as an MySqlConnection instance, and not via a connection string, is fixed

8.12.1216 30-Aug-18

The new caseSensitive parameter (by default, false) is added to ASP.NET web providers configuration options to remove LOWER from the generated SQL queries

Entity Developer

The bug with setting password as clear text in connection string when "Persist Security Info=False;" is fixed
The bug with creating and opening the model in .NET Core project after VS 2017 upgrade to v15.8 is fixed (Entity Framework, LinqConnect)

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 2.1.2 is supported
The misleading "The current provider does not support ambient transactions." warning, generated by TransactionScope in EF Core 2.1, is disabled
The bug with using Scaffold-DbContext against multicolumn PK, FK, IX, UX in EF Core 2 is fixed

8.12.1202 09-Aug-18

Entity Framework support

The new static method SetDefault is added to the EntitySpatialServices class in EF5/EF6
The behavior is changed: the default value of config.QueryOptions.UseCSharpNullComparisonBehavior is true now in EF Core
The bug with using the RenameIndex operation, when index name exceeds a max length allowed by the server and has to be transformed to a shorter name, in EF Core Code-First Migrations is fixed
The bug with incorrect generation of shortened PK/FK/IX/UX names in EF Core when using .NET Standard provider assemblies is fixed
The bug with SQL generation for comparing column with parameter in EF Core 2 is fixed

8.12.1190 19-Jul-18

MySQL 8.0 is supported

The authentication plugin caching_sha2_password is supported
The list of charset collations is updated with new values added in MySQL 8.0
The keywords and reserved words of MySQL 8.0 are supported
The behaviour is changed: the DeriveParameters method of MySqlCommandBuilder takes information about parameters from INFORMATION_SCHEMA instead of mysql.proc table for MySQL 8.0

The IDbColumnSchemaGenerator interface and the MySqlDataReader.GetColumnSchema() method are implemented in .NET Standard provider assemblies
The performance of the SSIS Lookup component is improved due to using one IN clause instead of many OR clauses
The bug with throwing the "Socket.IOControl handles Windows-specific control codes and is not supported on this platform." error by .NET Standard compliant assemblies on Linux and MacOS is fixed

Entity Framework support

The bug with paging in EF Core 2.1 is fixed
The bug with using the aggregate functions in EF Core 2.1 is fixed
The bug with translating calls to properties and methods in LINQ query to SQL statement in EF Core 2.1 is fixed
The bug with processing arguments of functions mapped via .HasDbFunction in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with applying a filter with implicit EnumToStringConverter via LINQ queries in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with using the String.CompareTo method via LINQ queries in EF Core is fixed

8.11.1172 21-Jun-18

SSL is supported in .NET Standard 2.0 provider assemblies
Proxy connection is supported for the SSL and HTTPS protocols
The bug with connecting to MariaDB with GSSAPI authentication is fixed

Entity Developer

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

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 2.1.1 is supported
The bug with applying the updated provider behavior after changing connection string options in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with generating incorrect SQL when using IndexOf expression in EF Core is fixed

8.10.1152 24-May-18

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

A destructor for DataContext is added

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 1.1.5 is supported
Entity Framework Core 2.0.3 is supported
The bug with missing Devart.Data.MySql.Entity namespace in *.Designer.cs generated by EF Core 2 Code-First Migrations via Devart NuGet package is fixed
The bug with generating command separators in the EF Core 2 Code-First Migrations script is fixed

8.10.1134 27-Apr-18

The bug with opening connection by .NET Standard 2.0 compliant assemblies on Linux is fixed
The bug with not loading a BLOB value via MySqlLoader if the value is larger than BufferSize is fixed

Entity Developer

The new Controller Area extended class property is added to EF Core Model (Entity Framework models)
The check of conditions for setting optionsBuilder.Use... in the generated OnConfiguring method by the EF Core template is improved (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The bug with retrieving the DateTimeOffset and TimeSpan data in EF Core is fixed
The bug with using BIT(1) column in the CASE clause in EF1/EF4/EF5/EF6 is fixed

8.10.1115 29-Mar-18

The behavior is changed: the License Key connection string parameter value is not sent to the dbMonitor instance when "Persist Security Info=false;"
The bug with throwing the "IDE not supported" exception by DataSet Manager in Visual Studio 2017 of versions 15.6.* is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The XmlMappingSource.FromResource method is supported in .NET Standard provider assemblies
The behavior is changed: all existing overloads of the method DataContext.Query() are replaced with DataContext.Query(String,params Object[])
The behavior is changed: the License Key connection string parameter value is not sent to the LinqMonitor instance when "Persist Security Info=false;"

Entity Developer

The new Retrieve Cross Database Relations option is implemented in Model Settings for detecting FK relations between tables in different databases
The new SQL Type, Size, Precision, Scale options are added to the Parameters tab in Method Editor of EF Core Model (Entity Framework models)
The process of synchronizing methods and parameters with database stored procedures in EF Core Model is improved (Entity Framework models)
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 (Entity Framework models)
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 (Entity Framework models)
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 (Entity Framework models)
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

Entity Framework Core 2.0.2 is supported

8.10.1086 15-Feb-18

The MySqlDependency class is supported in the .NET Standard 1.3 version of provider assemblies
The behaviour is changed: if there is no access to mysql.proc, then we will connect to information_schema for MySQL 5.5.3 and higher
The behaviour is changed: if there is no access to mysql.proc, then we will execute "SHOW CREATE [Procerdure, Function] 'proc_name'" query for MySQL lower then 5.5.3
The bug with serializing the DateTime value with explicitly specified Invariant Culture, when assigning it to MySqlParameter, is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with throwing MethodAccessException by .NET Standard provider assemblies when referencing them to a project, targeting Full .NET Framework, is fixed

Entity Developer

Support for ASP.NET Core MVC is added to the Data Annotations Metadata template (Entity Framework models)
The bug with applying the DevartEFCoreGenerator custom tool in Visual Basic .NET Core projects is fixed (Entity Framework models)

8.10.1061 11-Jan-18

SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) 2017 is supported - SSIS projects only
The type of the Offset and Length properties of the ScriptProgressEventArgs class is changed from Int32 to Int64
The type of the Offset and Length properties of the RestoreProgressEventArgs class is changed from Int32 to Int64
The bug with using System.TransactionScope and Devart .NET Standard assemblies is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with ignoring the DateTime precision by CreateDatabase() is fixed

Entity Developer

The ModelNameAsFilesPrefix property is implemented in the RepositoryAndUnitOfWork template
Support for ASP.NET Core MVC is added to the MVC Controller template (Entity Framework models)
The code generation for async method calls in the EF Core template is improved (Entity Framework models)
The behaviour is changed: a base class in TPT Inheritance is allowed to be abstract now (LinqConnect models)

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 1.1.4 is supported
Entity Framework Core 2.0.1 is supported
The bug with ignoring the maxLength, precision, scale property settings by update-database in EF Core is fixed
The bug with using enumerations in EF Core model is fixed
The bug with LIKE (.StartsWith/.Contains./EndsWith) is fixed
The bug with case-insensitive comparison is fixed

8.10.1031 23-Nov-17

The CancelEditRowIfUpdateFailed property, determining whether to call CancelEdit for the row after update of the row is failed when data binding is used, is added to MySqlDataTable

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The performance of generating complex queries is improved
The bug with exceeding a length of duplicated column aliases in the generated SQL is fixed

Entity Developer

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 usage of long identifiers (up to 140 symbols) for naming model objects is supported
The bug with quoting NULL default values by Create Model Wizard and Update From Database when working with MariaDB is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework 6.2 is supported
The SQL generation for subselects, when using Distinct(), in EF1/EF4/EF5/EF6 is optimized
The Code-First Migrations functionality in EF Core is improved:

the operations InsertData / UpdateData / DeleteData (introduced in EF Core 2), EnsureSchema (creates database if not exists), DropSchema (removes database) are supported

The bug with using UseMySql(DbConnection) extension method of DbContextOptionsBuilder in EF Core is fixed
The bug with using Add-Migration in Package Manager Console for adding code-based Code-First Migrations in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with using collections in a .Contains() method in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with JOIN conditions in SQL generated from LINQ query in EF1/EF4/EF5/EF6 is fixed
The bug with using multiple .Include() in EF Core 2 is fixed
The bug with processing conditions in LINQ queries with joins in EF Core is fixed

8.10.1013 30-Oct-17

.NET Standard 2.0 is supported

.NET Standard 2.0 compatible assemblies are added to the Devart.Data and Devart.Data.MySql NuGet packages
Distributed transactions are supported
The MySqlDataAdapter and MySqlCommandBuilder are implemented
The MySqlConnection.GetSchema() and MySqlDataReader.GetSchemaTable() methods for metadata retrieving are implemented
The MySqlDataSourceEnumerator class is implemented
The MySqlDependency class is implemented
The MySqlDump class is implemented
Component classes in .NET Standard 2.0 compatible assemblies are inherited from the Component class, and some of them implement the ICloneable and ISupportInitialize interfaces
Some of the classes, representing data types, now implement the INullable and ISerializable interfaces

.NET Core 2.0 is supported
The bug with using TransactionScope when a stored procedure starts its own transaction is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

.NET Standard 2.0 is supported
.NET Core 2.0 is supported
The bug with .Union().Any() is fixed

Entity Developer

.NET Standard 2.0 projects in Visual Studio 2017 are supported
.NET Core 2.0 projects in Visual Studio 2017 are supported
Entity Framework Core 2.0 is supported
The Retrieve Data functionality via Model Explorer for EF Core 2 is implemented
The bug with escaping invalid XML characters in the comments generated by templates is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 1.1.3 is supported
Entity Framework Core 2.0 is supported

8.9.980 06-Sep-17

The integration with Visual Studio 2017 is improved: the installation is now silent, without VSIX Installer prompt window
The bug with parsing point symbol in MySqlParameter.ParameterName is fixed

Entity Developer

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

Entity Framework support

The bug with using a variable with null value in LINQ query in EF Core is fixed

8.9.958 03-Aug-17

The bug with provisioning via template in Sync Framework is fixed

Entity Developer

The new Raw SQL Query class property and SQL method property with the corresponding editors are implemented in Entity Framework Core
The bug with generating code for the PropertyChanging event is fixed
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

Entity Framework support

The bug with casting BIT(1) values to BLOB in SQL generated by EF6 is fixed
The bug with using Contains() in multiple LINQ queries in EF Core is fixed
The bug with comparison and binary operations in EF Core is fixed

8.9.946 13-Jul-17

Entity Developer

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
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

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with SubmitChanges() when there are associations to classes belonging to a TPT hierarchy in a model is fixed

8.9.931 22-Jun-17

The compatibility with Visual Studio 2017 Updates is improved
The bug with using the 'Do not install assemblies in the GAC' install wizard functionality for Visual Studio 2017 is fixed
The bug with applying the License Key connection string parameter (concerns .NET Standard 1.3 compliant assemblies only) on Linux is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug related to the conflict of Entity Developer with dbForge SQL Complete is fixed
The bug with generating .NET Core code by EF Core and LinqConnect templates for the "Use the following connection string from App.config" option in Model Settings is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with using unsigned integer parameters is fixed

8.9.912 25-May-17

.NET Core is supported
The NuGet packages with .NET Standard 1.3 (.NET Core) compliant assemblies are uploaded to www.nuget.org
The bug with previewing a DataSet is fixed

Entity Developer

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
The bug with setting json datatype and rowversion pseudotype in SSDL is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with running LINQ queries, which invoke .NET methods on client side during materialization of result set, is fixed
The bug with materializing scalar value collection when converting values on the client side is fixed
The bug with returning incorrect data by the 'BooleanProperty ?? false' LINQ query is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 1.1.2 is supported
The support of EF Core models with string columns, which are defined without length limit and participate in PKs, FKs, indices, is improved
The compatibility with ASP.NET Core Identity is improved
The possibility to use command interception for EF6 commands executed within batch updates is implemented
The bug with using config.CodeFirstOptions.TruncateLongDefaultNames in EF Core is fixed
The bug with using the ForMySqlHasColumnName and ForMySqlHasColumnType modelBuilder methods with the value-type properties in EF Core is fixed
The bug with paging in EF Core is fixed

8.8.862 16-Mar-17

Visual Studio 2017 is supported
The "Initial Catalog" connection string parameter is added to MySqlConnection as an alias to the "Database" connection string parameter

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The JSON data type is supported
The bug with loosing decimal precision by the CreateDatabase() functionality is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with generating the virtual keyword when Inheritance Modifier=None is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 1.1.1 is supported

8.7.852 02-Mar-17

Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate 4 is supported

Entity Developer

The bug with detecting foreign key change by Update Model From Database is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with throwing the "Stack empty" error after stopping validation before code generation in a standalone version is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with a workability of the "Validate on Build" option in Model Settings is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with compilation of the EF Core template after copying it to model folder is fixed (EF Core models)

Entity Framework support

The translation of collection's Contains method in LINQ query to SQL statement in EF Core is supported

8.7.837 09-Feb-17

Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate 3 is supported
The "SSL TLS Protocol" connection string parameter is added to MySqlConnection for specifying the preferred TLS version that will be send to the server

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with using DataLoadOptions.LoadWith is fixed

8.7.832 02-Feb-17

The bug with the utf8mb4 character set with MariaDB is fixed

Entity Framework support

The AddUniqueConstraintOperation and DropUniqueConstraintOperation operations are supported in EF Core Code-First Migrations
The config.DmlOptions.LastInsertGuidFunction configuration option is added to specify a name of function or session variable to use it instead of LAST_INSERT_ID() for the Guid Identity properties
The bug with creating a predefined Migrations History table in EF Core, when config.Workarounds.DisableQuoting = true, is fixed

8.7.819 16-Jan-17

Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate is supported
The bug with not loading plugins for MariaDB is fixed

Entity Framework support

The bug with comparing non-nullable properties in LINQ query when config.QueryOptions.UseCSharpNullComparisonBehavior=true is fixed
The bug with using AddForeignKeyOperation and DropForeignKeyOperation in EF Core Code-First Migrations is fixed
The bug with throwing the "Operation is not valid due to the current state of the object" error with Batch Updates in EF1/EF4/EF5/EF6, if the previous SaveChanges() failed, is fixed

8.7.804 22-Dec-16

Entity Framework support

The bug with grouping by constant expression in EF1/EF4/EF5/EF6 when using DevExpress.XtraGrid.GridControl is fixed
The bug with creating indices by EF Core Code-First migrations is fixed

8.7.794 08-Dec-16

The 'Do not install assemblies in the GAC' check box that allows disabling placing the provider assemblies to the GAC is added to the Install Wizard
The bug with looking up a column with decimal(19,4) type for MySQL is fixed
The bug with generating an error when using MySqlMonitor on Linux is fixed
The bug with the "Query execution was interrupted" exception after invoking the Cancel method of MySqlCommand is fixed
The bug with not using parameters value in ParentRelation data in MySqlDataTable.SelectCommand is fixed
The bug with looking up a column with decimal(19,4) type for MySQL is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The exception message for invoking CreateDatabase() for the model which includes an association with missing end is improved
The bug with submitting records to the database via a TPT inheritance is fixed
The bug with throwing System.InvalidCastException when inserting / updating the System.Object properties is fixed

Entity Developer

The possibility to choose whether to add new entities to a diagram or not in Update From Database Wizard is implemented
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 (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 1.1.0 is supported
The Scaffold-DbContext NuGet command of Package Manager Console for generating a model basing on the existing database schema is supported in EF Core
Batch Updates support in EF Core is added
The MySqlJsonFunctions class is implemented in EF4/EF5/EF6 to use JSON functions in LINQ to Entities queries
The JSON datetype is supported in EF mapping
Signed versions of NetTopologySuite GIS library are supported in EF5/EF6
NetTopologySuite 1.14 is supported in EF5/EF6
GeoAPI 1.7.4 is supported in EF5/EF6
The NetTopologySuiteSigned and NetTopologySuiteUnsigned members are added to the SpatialServiceType enum in EF5/EF6
The config.DatabaseScript.Schema.DeleteDatabaseBehaviour option is supported in EF Core
The behaviour is changed: now by default System.DateTimeOffset is mapped to the datetime MySQL data type using CreateDatabase()/Code-First approach
The behaviour is changed: the functionality of SpatialServiceType.NetTopologySuiteSigned is moved to Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.EF5.dll / Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.EF6.dll
The bug with generating incorrect data types for 'tinytext', 'text', 'mediumtext' columns set via attribute / fluent mapping in the Code-First CreateDatabase/CreateDatabaseScript functionality is fixed
The bug with shortening PK, FK, IX, UX names in the Code-First CreateDatabase/CreateDatabaseScript functionality when config.CodeFirstOptions.TruncateLongDefaultNames=True is fixed
The bug with comparison in LINQ query when config.QueryOptions.UseCSharpNullComparisonBehavior=true is fixed
The bug with setting binary data types via Code-First mapping in EF4/EF5/EF6 is fixed
The bug with requesting extra privileges when preparing stored procedure is fixed
The bugs with logical expressions in EF Core are fixed

8.6.763 20-Oct-16

The bug with checking an SSL certificate when connecting to Amazon MySQL is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with returning incorrect data by the 'BooleanProperty ?? false' LINQ query is fixed

Entity Framework support

The bug with materializing object, which includes the DbGeometry or DbGeography properties, when executing SQL query via DbContext.Database.SqlQuery<> in EF5 and EF6 is fixed

8.6.753 06-Oct-16

The bug with the "The server hello message uses a protocol that was not recognized" error with SSL connections is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with reading columns of the base type in TPT inheritance via .OfType() of LINQ query
The bug with loading objects via association which targets to the base class of an inheritance with the materialized child class is fixed
The bug with throwing "Sequence contains more than one element" when reading objects of TPT hierarchy is fixed

Entity Developer

The generation of static methods by the EntityObject template is supported via the new property Direct Call of EntityMethod (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The bug with comparing bool class property with some value in EF Core is fixed

8.6.743 22-Sep-16

The bug with enlisting connections to a distributed transaction is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with moving mapping from abstract base class to child classes of TPH inheritance in the fluent mapping generated by the DbContext template is fixed (Entity Framework models)

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with materialization in the multithreaded application is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 1.0.1 is supported
The new optional parameter Action<MySqlDbContextOptionsBuilder> is added to UseMySql() extension method of DbContextOptionsBuilder in EF Core
The bug with processing IN expressions in EF Core is fixed
The bug with retrieving objects of TPH hierarchy in EF Core is fixed

8.6.729 01-Sep-16

The bug with data preview in the MySqlDataTable designer when the command text was changed is fixed

Entity Framework support

The DatabaseFacade.GetMySqlConnection() extension method, which returns MySqlConnection, is implemented in EF Core
The bug with calling the function without IN parameters is fixed
The bug with using the DatabaseFacade.UseTransaction() method in EF Core is fixed
The bug with nullable parameters in EF Core is fixed
The bug with throwing System.NullReferenceException when using TPH inheritance in EF Core is fixed
The bug with not throwing concurrency check exception on invoking DbContext.SaveChangesAsync() is fixed

8.6.714 11-Aug-16

Entity Developer

The bug with setting value of the Value Generated property attribute in the EF Core model is fixed
The bug with detecting foreign key change by Update Model From Database is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The bug with executing the UseMySql(DbConnection connection) extension method of DbContextOptionsBuilder in EF Core is fixed
The bug with using the DbContext(DbConnection connection) overload in EF Core is fixed
The bug with using EF Core logging is fixed
The bug with using enum values in EF Core is fixed
The bug with throwing DbUpdateConcurrencyException in EF Core is fixed
The bug with using comparisons in LINQ queries in EF Core is fixed

8.6.699 21-Jul-16

The bug with not firing OnChange for the first change when OnCheck is initialized for the MySqlDependency class is fixed

Entity Framework support

MySqlCSharpMigrationCodeGenerator and MySqlVisualBasicMigrationCodeGenerator for code-based migrations are implemented for EF4, EF5, EF6
The bug with convertation of enum values in parameters when using EF Core is fixed

8.6.687 07-Jul-16

TLS v1.1 and v1.2 are supported

Entity Developer

Entity Framework Core 1.0 RTM is supported
The possibility to set values of stored procedure parameters for getting metadata to generate automatically the corresponding complex type is implemented
The behaviour is changed: the ObservableCollection navigation properties are initialized now in a default class constructor (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core 1.0 RTM is supported

8.6.677 23-Jun-16

The bug with not adding records to the RSPreviewPolicy.config and RSReportDesigner.config files for correct work in Reporting Services(SSRS) projects is fixed

Entity Framework support

The MySqlConventionSetBuilder class is implemented in the Entity Framework Core support

8.6.667 09-Jun-16

Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools Business Intelligence (SSDT-BI) project templates for Analysis Services, Reporting Services, and Integration Services (mapping wizards) in Visual Studio 2015 are supported
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 is supported in SSIS DataFlow components
The bug with signing assemblies in Mobile Edition is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with setting string parameter data types in SQL statements generated basing on the Contains LINQ operator is fixed
The bug with quoting a database name by the DataContext.DeleteDatabase method is fixed

Entity Framework support

The config.DatabaseScript.Table.Tablespace configuration option is added to specify the tablespace for tables created via the Code-First approach

8.5.658 26-May-16

The bug with throwing NRE when a transaction associated with a connection is not closed, and the connection is implicitly closed, is fixed

Entity Developer

Entity Framework Core support is added
The DbProviderFactory provider registration in application's *.config is supported by the Entity Developer version integrated into Visual Studio
The default behaviour is changed: bit(2..8), bit(9..16), bit(17..32) are mapped to Byte, Int16, Int32 correspondingly by Create Model Wizard and Update Model From Database Wizard

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core RC2 is supported

8.5.649 12-May-16

Compatible with other dotConnect providers

8.5.644 05-May-16

The bug with not supported TimeStamp type in MySql SSIS DataFlow Source is fixed
The bug with prolongating an isolation level of ambient TransactionScope to the enlisted connection session is fixed
The bug with processing errors within TransactionScope is fixed

Entity Framework support

Upgrade Wizard is improved for upgrading projects with the Entity Framework functionality

8.5.639 21-Apr-16

The Run Once Command connection string parameter, which specifies a command to execute when the connection is opened the first time and not executed when the connection is taken from the pool, is added
The new LoadTable overloads for loading data from a IDataReader, array of rows, or only rows with a specific RowState from a DataTable are added to the MySqlLoader class
Truncate member that represents the TRUNCATE TABLE statement is added to the SqlStatementType enum
The bug throwing System.FormatException by the MySqlDataReader.GetBoolean method is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework Core RC1 is supported
Entity Framework-related assemblies are renamed

8.4.616 17-Mar-16

Compatible with other dotConnect providers

8.4.602 25-Feb-16

The bug with metadata returned by NHibernateMySqlConnection is fixed
The bug with throwing System.NullReferenceException by MySqlConnection.GetSchema("Columns") is fixed

8.4.592 11-Feb-16

The bug with invoking the NHibernateMySqlConnection.CreateCommand() method is fixed

Entity Developer

The code generation by the DbContext template (fluent mapping) for navigation properties is fixed (Entity Framework models)

8.4.583 21-Jan-16

MySQL 5.7 is supported
The behaviour is changed: now, when a fatal error occurs in a connection, Dispose is called for the transaction, corresponding to this connection
The behaviour is changed: now the password property of a DevartMySql connection in a SSIS project can be Sensitive
The type of the "config_data" column of the "scopeconfig" table is changed from TEXT to LONGTEXT for Sync Framework support
The bug with loosing fractional part of decimal value during synchronization for Sync Framework support is fixed
The bug with creating wrong precision and scale for a decimal column in a table that is automatically generated during the provisioning for Sync Framework support is fixed

8.4.563 24-Dec-15

Compatible with other dotConnect providers

8.4.558 17-Dec-15

The bug with "The transaction associated with the current connection has completed but has not been disposed" exception is fixed
The bug with reading value from a column of type "BIT(1)" via MySqlDataReader.GetBoolean() is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to the "Unable to cast object of type 'Devart.Data.Linq.Engine.SqlColumnRef'" error when using a TPT inheritance is fixed
The bug related to the "No data exists for the row/column." error when using the LoadWith method is fixed

8.4.543 26-Nov-15

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to the "Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection." error when enumerating an IQueryable collection is fixed
The bug with materializing objects having EntitySet<T> fields via non-anonymous class that is not included in the model is fixed

Entity Framework support

The bug with the DateTimeOffset columns used within generated UNION ALL statements is fixed
The bug with some MySqlFunctions within LINQ queries is fixed

8.4.535 12-Nov-15

The bug with throwing the "Unknown connection string parameter" exception is fixed
The bug with the MySqlCommand.Cancel method not working is fixed

8.4.521 22-Oct-15

The bug with executing a prepared statement with a decimal parameter is fixed
The bug with creating a new connection pool, when there is an existing pool with the same connection string, and the connection string has the "Character Set=auto" parameter, is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to the "Collection is read-only" error when loading mapping of a stored procedure/function that returns a class, mapped as Table, but not related to the DataContext class, is fixed
The bug related to using IQueryable<T>.Count() is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with applying naming rules for model properties is fixed
The bug related to the "Sequence contains no matching element" error in Update Wizards when working with TPH inheritances and many-to-many associations is fixed (LinqConnect models)
The bug related to the StackOverflowException when deleting method from model in Model Explorer is fixed (LinqConnect models)

8.4.506 01-Oct-15

Compatible with other dotConnect providers

8.4.497 17-Sep-15

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The Parent property is added to the IInheritanceConfiguration interface
The bug related to working with TPH inheritances and fluent mapping approach is fixed

Entity Developer

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

8.4.492 10-Sep-15

The Sql Modes connection string parameter for setting MySQL server sql_mode is implemented
The bug with mapping from SQL Server to MySQL in a SSIS project is fixed
The bug with throwing the "IDE not supported" exception by DataSet Manager in Visual Studio 2015 is fixed

8.4.478 20-Aug-15

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The possibility to use .IsRowVersion() method for properties with non-binary data types when using the fluent mapping approach is added
The bug with the materialization of anonymous types is fixed

Entity Developer

The Use ObservableCollection property of the DbContext template is implemented (Entity Framework models)
The behaviour is changed: now the 1:1 and 1:0..1 associations are displayed differently on the diagram (LinqConnect models)
The bug with adding LinqConnect template for C# after adding the WCF RIA Domain Service template (Visual Basic) in Visual Basic projects is fixed (LinqConnect models)
The bug with non-generated .IsRowVersion() method for entity properties with IsVersion = True when using the fluent mapping approach is fixed (LinqConnect models)

Entity Framework support

The bug with throwing System.NullReferenceException when applying logical OR operator to the results of several IEnumerable<T>.Contains(T t) is fixed

8.4.464 30-Jul-15

Visual Studio 2015 is supported

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with CreateAssociationConvention when working with the fluent mapping approach is fixed
The bug with ManyToManyNamesConvention when working with the fluent mapping approach is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with generating namespace for the IsExternal enum is fixed

8.3.457 16-Jul-15

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to the "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error on SubmitChanges() is fixed

Entity Developer

The possibility of setting default values for enum properties is implemented (LinqConnect models)
The bug with freezing Visual Studio when using the Find dialog in large models is fixed

Entity Framework support

The performance of generating SQL for Enumerable.Contains in LINQ queries is improved by supporting a new expression type, DbInExpression, in Entity Framework 6

8.3.447 02-Jul-15

The bug with empty BLOBs when executing the MySqlDump.Backup method with MySqlDump.HexBlob set to true is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with materialization of classes with the same names, which are located in the different namespaces or which are the nested classes of the different classes, is fixed
The bug related to wrong SQL generation when using Count(condition)/ LongCount()/ LongCount(condition) methods in the LINQ query is fixed

8.3.437 18-Jun-15

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The OpenConnection() method is added to the DataContext class
The bug with not calling the InitializeConnection() method for a newly created connections while performing query or stored procedure is fixed

Entity Framework support

The bug with loosing elements within the IN clause of the generated SQL for the LINQ Contains clause is fixed

8.3.422 28-May-15

Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate is supported
SSL renegotiation is supported

Entity Developer

The bug with detecting the default values of attributes added via the Attributes menu is fixed
The bug with generating code by MVC Controller template is fixed (Entity Framework models)

8.3.407 07-May-15

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to not submitting new records, when EntityRef of the corresponding entity class is set to null, is fixed
The bug related to re-materialization of objects of the same type when performing methods that are mapped to different stored procedures is fixed
The bug with loading metadata and query performing when ITable<TEntity> is used instead of Table<TEntity> is fixed
The bug with the materialization of UInt32 values greater than Int32.MaxValue is fixed

Entity Framework support

The MySqlFunctions.Collate method for including the COLLATE operator with a necessary collation in generated SQL is added
The config.QueryOptions.ComparisonCollation option is implemented to use the COLLATE operator with a required collation when comparing strings in "equal" and "not equal" cases
The config.QueryOptions.LikeCollation option is added to use the COLLATE operator with a specified collation for .Contains/.StartsWith/.EndsWith methods

8.3.397 23-Apr-15

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to the odd ESCAPE character in a generated SQL query after LIKE condition is fixed
The bug related to re-materialization of objects of the same type when performing various SQL-queries via ExecuteQuery() method in multi-threading applications is fixed

Entity Developer

The support of ID generators for primary keys in the Fluent Mapping template is added (LinqConnect models)

Entity Framework support

The bug with generating columns in subqueries of a complex LINQ to Entities query containing limit expressions is fixed

8.3.389 09-Apr-15

Entity Developer

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 (Entity Framework models)

8.3.379 26-Mar-15

Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools Business Intelligence (SSDT-BI) project templates for Analysis Services and Integration Services in Visual Studio 2013 are supported
SSIS DataFlow Source and Destination components are supported in SSDT-BI for Visual Studio 2013

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The dependency on the System.Windows.Forms.dll assembly is removed
The bug related to the wrong SQL generation (setting value for primary key column in UPDATE statement) when using the Attach(TEntity, asModified) method is fixed
The bug related the CompiledQueryCache locking issue is fixed
The bug related to long default names of identifiers (for example, indexes, primary keys, foreign keys) when using CreateDatabase() method is fixed

Entity Developer

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

Entity Framework support

The bug with reading the second and consequent result sets, returned by stored procedure, is fixed

8.3.359 26-Feb-15

DotNetNuke support is discontinued
The bug with using System.Runtime.CompilerServices.ExtensionAttribute in Devart.Data.Synchronization.dll for the projects with 3.5 and higher versions of .NET Framework is fixed

Entity Framework support

The capability to create an automatically updated timestamp column via either the Timestamp attribute or the .IsTimestamp() method of Code-First fluent mapping is supported
The bug with explicit setting the name of MySQL data type for the DateTime property in Code-First mapping is fixed

8.3.352 12-Feb-15

The bug with recovering a persisted workflow instance is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to the "Cannot convert the value to GUID: System.Byte[]" error when working with eager loading and GUIDs is fixed

Entity Developer

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 (Entity Framework models)

8.3.344 02-Feb-15

Entity Developer

The bug with "Trial period expired" is fixed

8.3.342 29-Jan-15

The bug in Sync Framework support with synchronization scopes, having a filter based on a template, is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with generating code by the MVC Controller template for multiple self-associations is fixed (Entity Framework models)

8.3.333 15-Jan-15

The bug with throwing System.InvalidOperationException by connection pooling in multithreaded applications under high loads is fixed
The bug with using 'Delimiter' as a part of column or table name is fixed

Entity Developer

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

8.3.313 18-Dec-14

Compatible with other dotConnect providers

8.3.303 04-Dec-14

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to memory leak errors when working with the disabled compiled query cache is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with the incorrect code generation, when the "Enable WinForms Data Binding" property of the DbContext template (Visual Basic) is set to True, is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with missing attributes for the enum members when generating code with the DbContext template is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The bug related to working with the customized Migration History table and Entity Framework 6 is fixed

8.3.293 20-Nov-14

ADO.NET implementation of ASP.NET Identity 2.0 support is improved

The new IQueryableUserStore interface is implemented in the UserStore class
The new IQueryableRoleStore interface is implemented in the RoleStore class

The enableExpiredSessionAutoDeletion and expiredSessionAutoDeletionInterval options for deleting expired sessions are added to the session-state store provider definition in the web.config file
The behaviour is changed: the MySqlMonitor now hides information about the password connection string parameter
The bug with incorrect metadata conversion with MySQL 4.1 and earlier is fixed
The bug with the conflict between versions of Devart.Data.MySql.Web.dll assembly for ASP.NET 2 and ASP.NET 4 is fixed

Entity Developer

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
The bug with incorrect execution of the "Create Storage and Mapping" command for an association is fixed (Entity Framework models)

8.3.283 06-Nov-14

The new \Web\ASP.NET 45\Devart.Data.MySql.Web.dll assembly (its revision number is 5) is added to the provider installation folder to support SimpleMembership in MVC5

Entity Developer

The bug with reading all constructor parameters for attributes when opening model is fixed
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 (Entity Framework models)
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 (Entity Framework models)

8.3.274 23-Oct-14

Entity Framework support

The config.SpatialOptions.PrecisionModel configuration option is added to specify the NetTopologySuite precision model scale factors
The bug with assigning -1 (instead of null) to SRID of the DbGeometry object is fixed

8.3.264 09-Oct-14

The Enterprise Library 6 support is added; all previous versions of Enterprise Library are no longer maintained

8.3.254 25-Sep-14

The bug with invalid script when table has column with the TEXT data type for Sync Framework support is fixed

Entity Developer

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 behaviour is changed: now the default value for the 'File Per Class' option of the DbContext template is True (Entity Framework models)
The bug with model creation when using multiple naming rules (suffixes, prefixes) is fixed
The bug with generating .HasPrecision for decimal types when using non-attribute fluent mapping (DbContext template) is fixed (Entity Framework models)

8.3.244 11-Sep-14

Entity Framework support

The bug related to the "Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection" error when working with MySqlFunctions.Like(value, pattern) method is fixed

8.3.239 04-Sep-14

The bug with changing the database name case to lower when executing the MySqlSyncDescriptionBuilder.GetDescriptionForTable method is fixed
The bug with returning 0 instead of -1 for all statements except UPDATE, DELETE, INSERT statements is fixed
The bug with invalid script when table has only primary key columns for Sync Framework support is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to the NullReferenceException on SubmitChanges, when working with association between classes involved in complex TPT hierarchy, is fixed

Entity Developer

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
The Enable WinForms Data Binding property of the DbContext template is implemented (Entity Framework models)
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 (Entity Framework models)
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 (Entity Framework models)
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 (Entity Framework models)
The bug with generating DatabaseGeneratedAttribute for non-EntityKey properties when using attribute mapping (DbContext template) is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with generating DatabaseGeneratedAttribute for all EntityKey properties when using fluent mapping (DbContext template) is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug related to the "An error occurred during an attempt to compile the template 'LinqConnect'." error in Windows Store applications is fixed (LinqConnect models)

8.3.225 14-Aug-14

The bug with autocommitting MySqlTransaction when using the load balancing feature is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with generation AUTO_INCREMENT for columns with INT/BIGINT data types, which have the corresponding entity properties with System.Decimal type and IsDbGenerated=true, via the CreateDatabase() method is fixed
The bug with generation UNSIGNED for columns with unsigned integer data types via the CreateDatabase() method is fixed

Entity Developer

The possibility to use relative paths to assemblies in code generation templates is implemented
The Implement Equals property is added to the DbContext, ObjectContext, and POCO Entity templates (Entity Framework models)
The bug related to detecting nullable foreign key as non-nullable is fixed (Entity Framework models)

8.3.215 31-Jul-14

The bug with throwing "Unspecified error" by Migration Wizard when working with Windows Store (WinRT), XNA, Windows Phone, and Silverlight projects is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with a format of generated DataAnnotations.RegularExpression for Numeric validate format is fixed
The bug with displaying Entity Set in the Class Editor dialog is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with applying changes after editing the list of the extended properties via the Model Settings dialog is fixed (Entity Framework models)
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 (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The bug with generating DDL for creating TPH tables, when the value of discriminator is not set, in the Code-First/Code-First Migrations functionality is fixed
The bug with applying custom HistoryContext settings is fixed

8.3.201 10-Jul-14

The UserID property is removed from the MySqlConnectionStringBuilder class for compatibility with Visual Basic

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with the missing "ASP.NET Dynamic Data LinqConnect Web Application" project template in Visual Studio 2013 is fixed

Entity Developer

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 (Entity Framework models)
The bug with "DevartEntityDeploy" task, when .NET Framework 2.0 and .NET Framework 3.5 are not installed on the target workstation, is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The bug with a workability of the Binary As Guid connection string parameter when using Code-First Fluent Mapping approach is fixed

8.3.191 26-Jun-14

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to the memory leak issue when working with EntityCachingMode = StrongReference is fixed
The bug related to the NullReferenceException when performing queries and working with EntityCachingMode = StrongReference is fixed
The bug related to the "There is no tables to process" error when using the CreateDatabase() method with the DataContext object, that is based on the empty model, is fixed
The bug related to the error when creating XmlMappingSource via the FromReader() method is fixed

Entity Developer

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

8.3.181 12-Jun-14

ADO.NET implementation of ASP.NET Identity 2.0 support is improved

The new IUserStore<T>, IUserClaimStore<T>, IUserLoginStore<T>, IUserPasswordStore<T>, IUserRoleStore<T>, IUserEmailStore<T>, IUserPhoneNumberStore<T> interfaces are implemented in the MySqlUserStore and MySqlUserStore<TIdentityUser, TIdentityRole> classes
The new IRoleStore<T> interface is supported in the MySqlRoleStore and MySqlRoleStore<TIdentityUser, TIdentityRole> classes

The Server and UserID properties are added to the MySqlConnectionStringBuilder class for compatibility with MySQL Connector/Net

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to using properties of the enum data type (Byte, SByte), that are used in the complex entity key, is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with resetting value of the extended properties for associations after reopening the model is fixed (LinqConnect models)

Entity Framework support

The bug with throwing System.NullReferenceException when disposing an ObjectResult is fixed
The bug with performing "Generate Database from Model" wizard when working with Entity Framework 6.1.0 Tools for Visual Studio 2012/Visual Studio 2013 is fixed

8.3.171 29-May-14

The bug with deserialization of a license resource in ASP.NET applications, running with medium or high trust level is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to using properties of the enum data type, that are used in the complex entity key, is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug related to the opening of the *.edmx files is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The bug related to the inserts (for Identity columns) and updates (for Computed columns) when working with unquoted columns and when config.Workarounds.DisableQuoting is set to True is fixed
The bug with throwing the "Unexpected query batch command" exception when using the Batch Updates functionality is fixed
The bug with generating extra condition for limiting subselect by one record in generated subqueries with grouping is fixed

8.3.161 15-May-14

MySqlUtils class is added
The MySqlScript.Cancel() method is added to stop query execution

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to reading values of the string properties, that are database generated, when performing SubmitChanges() is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug related to performing queries via Query Editor/Retrieve Data when working with the 'Enterprise Library' validation framework is fixed
The bug related to the storage and mapping regeneration via the "Update Database from Model" wizard, or via the "Regenerate Storage and Mapping" option of the diagram shortcut menu, when changing one DBMS to another, is fixed (LinqConnect models)

Entity Framework support

The behaviour is changed: now a semicolon (;) after the very last statement is generated in the Code-First CreateDatabaseScript() functionality

8.3.146 24-Apr-14

The ADO.NET implementation of ASP.NET Identity 2.0 support is added

The new \Web\ASP.NET Identity 2\Devart.Data.MySql.Web.Identity.dll assembly (its revision number is 2) is added to the provider installation folder
The new \Web\ASP.NET Identity 2\Install_identity_tables.sql and \Web\ASP.NET Identity 2\Uninstall_identity_tables.sql files are added to the provider installation folder
The new \Web\ASP.NET Identity 2\Upgrade_identity_tables_from_v1_to_v2.sql file is added to the provider installation folder
The new IUserEmailStore, IUserPhoneNumberStore, IUserTwoFactorStore, IUserLockoutStore interfaces are implemented in the UserStore class

The bug with 'Load Test Editor' is fixed
The bug with applying the Update and Delete actions in the SSIS DataFlow Destination component for tables with composite primary key is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to wrong order of the insert/delete operations on SubmitChanges when the autogenerated primary keys are used is fixed

Entity Developer

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; Entity Framework models)
The bug related to the incorrect value setting for the "Has Stream" property when working with the WCF Data Services projects is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The database server version is added to the generated Code-First Migrations script
The datetimeoffset pseudo type of SSDL, which corresponds to System.DateTimeOffset, is implemented
The bug with the explicitly named primary keys in Code-First Migrations, when the primary key is defined via the PrimaryKey() method of the CreateTable() operation, is fixed
The bug with generating SQL for EntitySQL ANYELEMENT is fixed

8.3.135 10-Apr-14

The ADO.NET implementation of ASP.NET Identity support is improved

The ICloneable interface is implemented in the IdentityUser and IdentityRole classes
The User_Id column in the AspNetUserClaims table is renamed to UserId
The Install_identity_tables script shipped with installation is changed: the length of the AspNetRoles.Name and AspNetUsers.UserName columns is reduced from varchar(256) to varchar(166)

Entity Framework support

The UpdateDatabaseOperation operation in Code-First Migrations for Entity Framework 6.x is supported
The RenameIndexOperation operation in Code-First Migrations for Entity Framework 6.1 is supported
Multiple EntityContainers in the Code-First CreateDatabase()/CreateDatabaseScript()/DeleteDatabase() functionality are supported
The Database.Delete(DbConnection) functionality is supported: all objects in the current schema (database), which is specified in Database or set with Initialization Command connection string parameter, are removed if DatabaseScript.Schema.DeleteDatabaseBehaviour = AllSchemaObjects
The Database.Exists(DbConnection) functionality is supported: the method returns true if DatabaseScript.Schema.DeleteDatabaseBehaviour = AllSchemaObjects and at least one table exists in the current schema (database) which is specified in Database or set with Initialization Command connection string parameter
Determining correct datatypes of data retrieved by EntitySQL queries with UNION ALL and similar constructions is improved
The compatibility with Hibernating Rhinos EntityFramework Profiler is improved
The bug with throwing System.NullReferenceException when enumerating an ObjectResult returned by a stored procedure is fixed

8.3.125 27-Mar-14

CTR encryption mode for SSH connections is supported
The 'keep alive' parameter, that enables sending TCP keep-alive packets and specifies the interval at which they are sent, is added to the connection string
The behaviour is changed: the instance_id field of the wf_activity_info table in Workflow Tracking implementation is of varchar(100) type now
The bug with the serialization/deserialization of MySqlException is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to the incorrect detection of class type when working with the TPH inheritances and discriminators of the String/Decimal type is fixed

Entity Developer

The override modifier for DbSet class properties generated by DbContext templates is added (Entity Framework models)
The bug with setting nullable type for EnumType property by the Data Transfer Object template is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework 6.1.0 RTM is supported
Entity Framework 6.1.0 Tools for Visual Studio 2012 & 2013 are supported
The releasing of memory, which was allocated for commands and readers of ObjectContext / DbContext, is improved

8.3.115 06-Mar-14

The ADO.NET implementation of ASP.NET Identity support is added
The message of the exception, when an attempt to rollback a closed transaction is made, is improved

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The CommandTimeout property is added to the DataProvider class
The behaviour is changed: now explicit deletion of the foreign keys by their names is not performed via the DeleteDatabase() method
The bug related to the invalid generation of the foreign keys DDL for many-to-many associations when using CreateDatabase method is fixed
The bug with the query cache when performing several queries, having nullable parameters, sequentially is fixed

Entity Developer

The information message about availability of NuGet Package Manager on the workstation is added in the Entity Developer version integrated into Visual Studio (Entity Framework models)
The behaviour is changed: now paths to assemblies with attributes (Model Settings -> Model -> Attributes) are saved and used as relative paths
The bug with invalid code generation when different namespaces for context and entity classes are used in the VB.NET projects is fixed (LinqConnect models)
The bug with generating the entities namespace in fluent mapping configuration classes is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with generating DatabaseGeneratedOption.Computed for non-EntityKey properties in fluent mapping is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

SharpMap 1.1 is supported
NTS Topology Suite 1.13.2 is supported

8.2.103 18-Feb-14

Entity Developer

More information messages, when validating EF6 models basing on the EntityFramework.dll functionality, are added (Entity Framework models)
The bug with using Create Model Wizard for EF6 models is fixed (Entity Framework models)

8.2.100 13-Feb-14

The bug with SSL connections in x64 applications is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The behaviour is changed: now the script is generated with "ON DELETE NO ACTION" when using the CreateDatabase() method and the "Delete Rule" for the association is set to "NO ACTION"
The behaviour is changed: now the CreateDatabase() method uses the same algorithm for naming foreign keys as in Entity Developer
The bug with the compiled query cache when working with the DbLinqDataSource component when navigating through the pages of the DataGrid control is fixed
The bug with the wrong SQL query generation for Contains(), StartsWith(), EndsWith() methods when the string pattern includes '[' or '^' symbols is fixed

Entity Developer

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 (Entity Framework models)
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) (Entity Framework models)
The bug related to the "Version string portion was too short or too long" error is fixed
The bug with dropping the UpdateCheck property value from Always to Never when re-opening the model is fixed (LinqConnect models)
The bug with parsing inheritances in *.edmx is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The bug with "Update Model From Database" wizard in Entity Framework 6 Tools for Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013 is fixed

8.2.90 30-Jan-14

The IgnoreFractionalSeconds connection string parameter (default value is False) is implemented to define whether or not fractional seconds are sent to database
The behaviour is changed: IndexOutOfRangeException is generated now instead of InvalidOperationException when MySqlDataReader.GetOrdinal(String name) finds nothing in the result set
The bug with incorrect error message when authenticating with limited privileges is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with handling complex types of the entity properties in the ServerDataTypeConvention class when working with fluent mapping is fixed
The bug related to the "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" exception on CreateDatabase() method when working with associations and fluent mapping is fixed
The bug with performing updates and deletes, when concurrency check is used for not-primary key columns, and the commands are combined to run in batches, is fixed
The bug related to re-materialization of objects of the same type when performing various SQL-queries via ExecuteQuery() method is fixed

Entity Framework support

The bug with generating IndexOutOfRangeException by the ObjectContext.ExecuteStoreQuery method when the result set of the SQL query does not include any mapped column of the entity being materialized is fixed

8.2.80 16-Jan-14

Entity Developer

The bug related to the incorrect change detection when updating database from model (the precision and comments) is fixed
The bug with not including the namespace name in the XML mapping, when namespaces for entity classes and context class are different, is fixed (LinqConnect models)
The bug with creating models for Entity Framework 6 on the workstation without .NET Framework 4.5 installed is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with association mapping in the DbContext template is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with composite keys mapping in the DbContext template is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The bug with changing the MigrationHistory table when migrating from EF4/EF5 to EF6, when config.Workarounds.DisableQuoting = True, is fixed

8.2.65 26-Dec-13

The bug with retrieving views in Business Intelligence Solutions projects is fixed
The bug with throwing "Commands out of sync" and "No results cached" exceptions, when executing stored procedure, is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with wrong order for creation tables with the many-to-many associations via the CreateDatabase() method is fixed
The bug with the entity cache (EntityCacheMode.WeakReference) is fixed

Entity Developer

The predefined templates (POCO Entity and LinqConnect) are improved: new template setting, "Generate Dummy Comments", is added (LinqConnect models)
The bug related to detecting unique keys is fixed (LinqConnect models)
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 (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The behaviour is changed: Code-First Migrations generates DEFAULT values for new NOT NULL columns of Boolean, Guid, TimeSpan types when adding them in the existing table
The bug with creating primary key in the __MigrationHistory table for EF5 in databases with utf16 or utf32 character set is fixed

8.2.55 12-Dec-13

Workflow Foundation is supported
The bug with setting the FetchAll and CommandTimeout properties of MySqlCommand object basing on the Default FetchAll and Default CommandTimeout connection string parameters of the corresponding MySqlConnection instance is fixed
The bug with generating "Connection is already attached to distributed transaction" when reusing connection from the pool is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with foreign keys not created for many-to-many associations via the CreateDatabase() method is fixed
The bug related to the "The type initializer for 'DefaultXmlMappingProvider'" exception when working with the xml mapping and result sets is fixed
The bug with the comparison of the entity key property with a nullable variable, which is equal to null, is fixed

Entity Framework support

The bug with applying the config.DatabaseScript.Schema.CharacterSet and config.DatabaseScript.Schema.Collate values, when creating the database basing on the Database connection string parameter (config.DatabaseScript.Schema.DeleteDatabaseBehaviour = DeleteDatabaseBehaviour.Database) using CreateDatabase()/Code-First approach, is fixed
The bug with creating primary key in the __MigrationHistory table for EF6 in databases with multibyte character set is fixed

8.1.45 28-Nov-13

The behaviour is changed: now a transaction rollbacks on Connection.Close() if Transaction.Commit() was not called before closing the connection
The bug with "Malformed communication packet" error when executing a prepared statement on MySQL 5.6.14 is fixed
The bug with disabling some properties in Devart components in Visual Studio Express is fixed
The bug with calling the RowUpdating event of MySqlDataTable and MySqlDataAdapter classes when no data is changed is fixed
The bug with installing provider assemblies for the x64 version of SQL Server Integration Services is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The possibility to inherit from the data provider classes is added

Entity Developer

The new "Provider Manifest Token" model property is implemented to identify the target server (Entity Framework models)
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

Entity Framework support

The compatibility of Entity Framework provider for EF v1, v4, v5 with medium trust level environment is improved
The bug related to the NRE on the CreateDatabaseScript() method, when the Code-First model is not configured completely, is fixed

8.1.36 14-Nov-13

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to the incorrect generation of the datatype names ( TINYTEXT/MEDIUMTEXT/LONGTEXT, TINYBLOB/MEDIUMBLOB/LONGBLOB) when using the CreateDatabase() method is fixed

8.1.26 31-Oct-13

Visual Studio 2013 is supported
The behaviour is changed: installation with the /VERYSILENT install parameter will uninstall the other version of the provider without any dialog box if it is installed
The bug with SJIS encoding when data is inserted via a parameter is fixed
The bug with using ExtendedMembership provider in a multithreaded application is fixed
The bug related to the "Connection must be opened" error when rolling back a transaction if a connection has been already closed, is fixed

Entity Developer

Entity Framework 6 is supported
The bug with IntelliSense when working with T4 Editor in Visual Studio 2012 is fixed

Entity Framework support

The 6.0.0 and 6.0.1 versions of Entity Framework are supported
The behaviour is changed: Entity Data Model Wizard shows a more detailed error message in case of connecting to unsupported database or using incorrect provider manifest tokens

8.0.17 17-Oct-13

Microsoft Sync Framework support is implemented
Load Balancing support is implemented: now several hosts with their ports can be specified in the Host parameter of the connection string, and dotConnect for MySQL will switch the host for each new SELECT or SHOW statement

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The Collate method of the SqlMethods class is implemented
The bug with ignoring 'IsDbGenerated = True' when using Attach(TEntity entity, bool asModified) method is fixed
The bug with the compiled query cache when query contains parameters with the same values is fixed

Entity Developer

The predefined templates are improved: new template setting, "Use Compiled Query Cache", is added (LinqConnect models)
The bug with "DevartEntityDeploy" task, which generates mapping files, in Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate is fixed

Entity Framework support

The behaviour is changed: Code-First Migrations generates DEFAULT 0 for new NOT NULL columns of numeric types when adding them in the existing table
The behaviour is changed: Code-First Migrations generates DEFAULT '' for new NOT NULL columns of string types when adding them in the existing table
The bug with performing queries via the ExecuteStoreQuery, SqlQuery methods in Entity Framework 6 is fixed

7.8.333 23-Sep-13

Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate is supported
The "Default FetchAll" connection string parameter for defining default value of the FetchAll property of MySqlCommand objects created on the connection is implemented

Entity Developer

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

Entity Framework support

The behavior is changed: the strict FetchAll = True for created SQL commands is removed; now the behavior is determined by the connection string parameter "Default FetchAll"

7.8.322 05-Sep-13

SSIS DataFlow Source and Destination components for MySQL are implemented
The bug with an error occurring during opening a connection, and then this connection getting into the pool is fixed
The bug with the Caption property of the DataGridView column with the Devart DataTable component is fixed
The bug with detecting self-relations in Microsoft DataSet Wizard is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The possibility to use the extension method AsQueryable() in LINQ queries is added
The support for correct retrieving of the TimeSpan and DateTimeOffset values while materializing is added
The bug with eager loading is fixed
The bug with the redundant opened sessions is fixed
The bug with missing CreateCommand method in the DataProvider class is fixed
The bug related to the ArgumentNullException on SubmitChanges method when trying to update a row with the same values is fixed

Entity Developer

The "Close the window when the generation completes successfully" option in the Generation Process window is implemented in the standalone Entity Developer
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 (Entity Framework models)
The design time support for model-defined functions is added (Entity Framework models)
The behaviour 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 (Entity Framework models)
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 (Entity Framework models)
The bug related to the detection of Table Per Type inheritances as Table Per Concrete Type inheritances when opening an existing model is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with parsing *.edmx is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with generating "An item with the same key has already been added" error when using DbContext Template is fixed (Entity Framework models)
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 (Entity Framework models)
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

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework 6 Release Candidate 1 is supported
SharpMap 1.0 RTM is supported
NetTopologySuite 1.13.1 is supported
Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.Spatials.dll assembly is added
The bug with generating NRE when adding parameter to a command in IDbCommandInterceptor.ReaderExecuting in Entity Framework 6 is fixed

7.7.301 08-Aug-13

The IncludeUse property of MySqlDump is implemented to specify whether to include the 'Use Database' statement in backup file
The IncludeDatabaseUsersOnly property of MySqlDump is implemented to include only users that have privileges in specified database in backup file
The CommitBatchSize property of MySqlDump is implemented to specify the size limit of a single insert statement with multiple values in the script
The support of asynchronous backing up and restoring for MySqlDump is implemented
The bug with compatibility of Devart.Data.MySql.Web.dll for .NET Framework 2 and 4 in Visual Studio 2010, that is automatically added to the project when adding the MySqlDataSource component to the web form, is fixed

Entity Developer

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: the possibility to add one-to-one associations with nullable foreign key properties is added (LinqConnect models)
The behaviour is changed: a table storage engine is not set explicitly in the generated DDL
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 bug with breaking the parameters order in Generator Parameters Editor is fixed (LinqConnect models)
The bug with an error during a compilation of the 'LinqConnect' template for VB.NET projects in Visual Studio 2008 is fixed (LinqConnect models)
The bug with breaking the IdGenerator configuration after closing the model is fixed (LinqConnect models)
The bug with generating code by Self-Tracking Entity template is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with parsing *.edmx is fixed

Entity Framework support

The bug with converting data types when using Batch Updates is fixed

7.7.287 18-Jul-13

SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services is supported
The bug with column order in DataTable, which is populated by the Fill method of the MySqlDataAdapter object, is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to the NRE on the CreateDatabase() method, when the navigation properties generation for one of the sides in one-to-one association is turned off, is fixed
The bug with wrong script generation on the CreateDatabase() method for one-to-one associations is fixed
The bug with materialization when converting decimal values is fixed
The bug related to the "Sequence contains no elements" exception when working with unmapped properties and PropertyChanging/PropertyChanged events is fixed
The bug related to materializing structs in the "select new" clause is fixed
The bug related to the "Method not found" exception when opening connection in LINQPad via LinqConnectDriver is fixed

Entity Developer

Support for spatial data types in Entity Framework 5 and 6 is added
The behaviour is changed: a default value for the "Detect Table Per Type inheritances" option in Model settings is set to False
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 parsing *.edmx is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

Support for spatial data types in Entity Framework 5 and 6 is added
NetTopologySuite GIS library support in Entity Framework 5 and 6 is added
MySQL spatial 'geometry' data type support in Entity Framework 5 and 6 is added
Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.dll assembly built with the 4.5 version of .NET Framework is added
Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.Migrations.dll assembly built with the 5.0 version of EntityFramework.dll is added
The MySqlSpatialFunctions class for working with MySQL spatial functions in LINQ to Entities is added
The Database value is added to the DeleteDatabaseBehaviour enumeration for creating/removing database, which is specified in the Database connection string parameter, when using CreateDatabase()/DropDatabase() functionality
The config.Workarounds.UseInvariantProviderManifestToken configuration option (default value is False) is added to provide the possibility of returning the invariant string literal as the provider manifest token
The config.SqlFormatting.Identation option is renamed to config.SqlFormatting.Indenting
The bug with using delimiter when generating Code-First Migrations script via the ScriptUpdate method of the MigratorScriptingDecorator class in Entity Framework 6 is fixed

7.6.276 03-Jul-13

The ReturnProviderSpecificTypes property of the MySqlDataSource component is implemented to return provider-specific values
The bug with not working MissingSchemaAction property of the MySqlDataAdapter is fixed

Entity Developer

The "Regenerate Storage and Mapping" option for regenerating model parts, specific to the database server, is added to the diagram shortcut menu
Storage Entity Editor is improved: the capability to edit extended columns settings, such as facets, is added (Entity Framework models)
The bug with adding a new property to the base abstract class in Table Per Hierarchy inheritance is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The bug with a workability of configuration options set in the application config file when using Code-First Migrations via Package Manager Console of Visual Studio is fixed

7.6.267 20-Jun-13

The bug with the MySqlDataSource component in design time is fixed
The bug with generating typed Devart DataSet using a connection from *.config in the Visual Basic project is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The performance when working with the TPT-inheritance and retrieving descendants via OfType<> is improved
The bug with the CreateDatabase() method when "Delete Rule" is set for the association (not empty and not "NO ACTION") is fixed
The bug related to the "The non-nullable navigation property '...' was set to null in the entity object '...'" error when working with nullable composite foreign keys is fixed
The bug related to working with the WCF Ria Domain Service template is fixed
The bug with the TPT-inheritance and associations to the descendants of the inheritance is fixed
The bug related to the "Violation of PRIMARY KEY constraint" error on SubmitChanges(), when DataContext has only one added entity for insertion with a custom key generator and DbGenerated=False for its primary key, is fixed

Entity Developer

The behaviour is changed: DatabaseGeneratedOption is always generated for EntityKey properties when using fluent mapping (Entity Framework models)
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
The bug with a serialization of stored procedures mapping to CUD operations in an association is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with ordering parameters of a method when Update From Database Wizard adds/removes parameters to the method signature is fixed (Entity Framework models)
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 (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The config.DatabaseScript.ForeignKey.Enabled option (default value is True) is added to turn on/off generation of foreign key constraints
The config.DatabaseScript.ForeignKey.IndexCreation option (default value is False) is added to turn on/off generation of indexes, created for the columns being parts of the foreign key, when using CreateDatabase() functionality

7.6.257 06-Jun-13

The bug with throwing an exception during installation when the DbProviderFactories section is missing in the machine.config file is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with the nullable properties in composite foreign keys is fixed

Entity Developer

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

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework 6 Beta 1 is supported
The bug using Batch Updates in a multithreaded application is fixed
The bug with creating CHAR / VARCHAR / BINARY / VARBINARY datatypes without specified max length using CreateDatabase()/Code-First approach is fixed

7.6.252 30-May-13

The bug with WebSecurity.Login() used with wrong credentials is fixed
The bug with WebSecurity.CreateUserAndAccount() when setting a value for the propertyValues parameter is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with inserting dependent entity when the main entity has a key generator for the primary key property and DbGenerated is set to False is fixed
The bug with duplicate columns in an ORDER BY statement when using eager loading for several tables is fixed
The bug related to working with unmapped class members is fixed

Entity Developer

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
The bug with adding many-to-many associations when one of the sides of the association is involved in the inheritance is fixed (LinqConnect)

Entity Framework support

The bug with setting config.DatabaseScript.Table.StorageEngine for Code-First Migrations is fixed

7.6.242 16-May-13

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The possibility to disable query cache via the DataContext's 'EntityCachingMode' property is added
The bug with inheriting an entity class from an unmapped type is fixed
The bug related to the 'Index was outside of the bounds of the array' error when using GroupBy in queries is fixed
The bug with the materializer cache and AssociateWith method is fixed
The bug with the CreatedDatabase() method for many-to-many associations is fixed
The bug with AddDays() method with negative parameters is fixed
The bug with inserting record with composite primary key is fixed

Entity Developer

The Save and Refresh buttons for persisting and reloading changes to / from a database is added to the Retrieve Data grid
POCO Entity template is improved: new template setting, "Property Change Notifiers", is added (LinqConnect models)
The behaviour is changed: a string default value for the property can be set without quotes in the Properties window
The behaviour is changed: the validation error is not generated when an abstract class is used in Table Per Type inheritance (Entity Framework models)
The bug with wrong detecting many-to-many associations is fixed (LinqConnect models)
The bug related to the "Unknown column 'DATETIME_PRECISION' in 'field list'" error when creating model for MySQL 6.0.10-alpha-community is fixed (LinqConnect models)
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 (Entity Framework models)
The bug with mapping nested complex data types in the MSL part of the model in the synchronization mode is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The config.DatabaseScript.Table.StorageEngine option for possibility of setting MySQL storage engine for creating tables with CreateDatabase() and Code-First Migrations functionality is implemented
The NDB storage engine is added to the list of available MySQL storage engines for Code-First

7.6.226 23-Apr-13

Entity Developer

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

7.6.224 18-Apr-13

The behaviour is changed: provider's build action is installed on the target workstation, on which .NET Framework is available, without Visual Studio integration

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with query cache issues when working with one DataContext instance and different data providers is fixed
The bug with method Any() when working with one DataContext instance and different data providers is fixed
The bug related to the issue with the OnListChanged() event when EntitySet collection is changed is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with loading mapping rules for some datatypes under .NET Framework 4.5 is fixed
The bug with wrong database script generation for tables with several many-to-many associations is fixed (LinqConnect models)

Entity Framework support

The config.CodeFirstOptions.TruncateLongDefaultNames configuration option (default value is False) is added to provide the possibility of truncating long default names of indexes, primary keys, and foreign keys generated by Code-First Migrations
The validation of the identifier name length in Code-First Migrations is implemented
The error messages about long identifiers when using CreateDatabase/DropDatabase are improved

7.6.217 04-Apr-13

The bug with defining delete statement in SqlStatementExecute event handler is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

LINQPad integration is supported
The bug related to the NullReferenceException on SubmitChanges() method when working with isVersion properties is fixed

Entity Developer

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
A new WCF RIA Domain Service template, generating a WCF RIA Services domain service class for a Devart Entity Framework model is added
A new WCF RIA Domain Service template, generating a WCF RIA Services domain service class for a Devart LinqConnect model is added
Add Template dialog box is improved
The Namespace property of class, complex type, enum is implemented
The Entity Container Namespace properties of the model is implemented (Entity Framework models)
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)
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
Automatic adding of references to Entity Framework specific assemblies when adding a new Devart Entity model to a project 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
New setting "Detect Table Per Type inheritances", which enables automatic detection of TPT inheritances, is added for Create Model Wizard and model
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
DbContext template is improved: a "WCF Data Contract Attributes" setting for generation of DataContract, KnownType, and DataMember attributes for classes and properties is added (Entity Framework models)
DbContext template is improved: "Implement INotifyPropertyChanging" and "Implement INotifyPropertyChanged" template settings are added (Entity Framework models)
DbContext template is improved: a new "Mapping Generation Strategy" property that determines the method of mapping generation is implemented (Entity Framework models)
POCO template is improved: a new "WCF Data Contract Attributes" setting for generating DataContract, KnownType, and DataMember attributes for classes and properties is added (Entity Framework models)
POCO template is improved: "Proxy Creation Enabled" setting is implemented (Entity Framework models)
POCO template is improved: new template settings, "Implement INotifyPropertyChanging" and "Implement INotifyPropertyChanged", are added (Entity Framework models)
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 (Entity Framework models)
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 (LinqConnect models)
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" (LinqConnect models)
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
The bug with the database script generation for the 'Delete Rule' association property is fixed (LinqConnect models)
The bug with closing connection in the generated method, which has multiple result sets, is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with adding annotation:UseStrongSpatialTypes="false" automatically to CSDL of the model with Entity Framework version set to 5 or higher is fixed

7.5.202 14-Mar-13

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with DataLoadOptions.AssociateWith() when working with several DataContext objects is fixed
The bug related to the "Specified cast is not valid" exception when working with auto-increment primary keys mapped to decimal entity property is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with obtaining DebuggerService when working with T4 Editor is fixed (LinqConnect models)

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework 6 Alpha 3 is supported

7.5.192 28-Feb-13

ExtendedMembership (SimpleMembership) provider support is added

Entity Developer

The possibility of setting enum values via predefined dropdown list in the Retrieve Data window is implemented
The bug related to the stored procedures with miltiple resultsets is fixed (LinqConnect models)

7.4.179 07-Feb-13

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to creation of a new instance of DataContext when using fluent mapping with the 'Database Independent = true' property is fixed
The bug related to the "Cannot add query to cache. An item with the same key already exists" exception in multi-threading applications is fixed

Entity Developer

The behaviour is changed: the serializing property and corresponding methods are not generated when using 'Fluent Mapping'/'POCO Entity' templates and Unidirectional mode (LinqConnect models)
The behaviour is changed: the MySQL TIMESTAMP data type is stored as 'timestamp' instead of 'datetime' in SSDL when creating or updating model (Entity Framework models)
The behaviour is changed: warnings about tables/views without primary keys are written to Error List window when generating a model (Entity Framework models)
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 (Entity Framework models)
The behaviour is changed: empty value is used in property editors instead of -1 for marking facets of Storage Column without assigned value (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The possibility of setting the timestamp server data type for the property when using the Code-First mapping is implemented
The behaviour is changed: the name of analogue for MySQL TIMESTAMP is changed from 'Timestamp' to 'timestamp' in the list of data types used in storage part (SSDL) of the model
The behaviour is changed: the MySQL TIMESTAMP data type is stored as 'timestamp' instead of 'datetime' in SSDL when creating or updating model via Entity Data Model Wizard

7.4.164 17-Jan-13

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to the "Cannot convert from 'string' to 'Devart.Data.Linq.Mapping.DeleteRule' " error when working with Fluent mapping is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with duplicate entries in the Base Class Condition and Derived Class Condition dropdowns of Inheritance Editor is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework 6 Alpha 2 is supported
Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.dll assembly compiled with EntityFramework.dll 6.0 and NET Framework 4.0 is added

7.3.146 20-Dec-12

The 'Disable Charset Sending' connection string parameter is implemented (defines whether the query 'SET NAMES charset_name' will be executed after MySqlConnection.Open when pooling is set to 'true')
The bug, that occurred when editing an existing Dataset in DataSet Wizard and which was associated with incorrect processing of 'Select command text' for Data tables having DataSource set to TableAdapter, is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to the "Object does not match target type" exception when working with DbLinqDataSources and gridviews is fixed
The bug with the implicitly converting strings to integer type in queries when working with VB.NET projects is fixed
The bug related to the "Unsupported delete rule 'NO ACTION'" exception when creating DataContext is fixed
The bug with update commands for dependent entities that participate in Table Per Type inheritance is fixed

Entity Developer

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 (Entity Framework models)
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 (Entity Framework models)
The possibility to delete the corresponding storage part objects automatically when deleting conceptual model objects is added (Entity Framework models)
The functionality of ignoring columns in the database in the "Update To/From Database" wizards if they were omitted once before is implemented
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 (Entity Framework models)
The Inheritance Editor dialog is improved: specifying Discriminator column for Table Per Hierarchy inheritance in the editor is implemented (Entity Framework models)
The Class Editor dialog is improved: fast access to the editor of the corresponding storage object is implemented (Entity Framework models)
The Method Editor dialog is improved: fast access to the editor of the corresponding storage object is implemented (Entity Framework models)
Warnings about objects that are not mapped are added
The naming algorithm for the newly-created columns, which correspond to complex type's properties, when using the Model First approach is improved (Entity Framework models)
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
The behaviour is changed: Configure Behaviour dialog is renamed to Stored Procedure Mapping; options for hiding inappropriate and mapped stored procedures are added (Entity Framework models)
The behaviour is changed: Table Editor dialog is renamed to Storage Entity Editor (Entity Framework models)
The behaviour is changed: Stored Procedure Editor dialog is renamed to Storage Procedure Editor (Entity Framework models)
The behaviour is changed: Configure Behaviour dialog is renamed to Stored Procedure Mapping (LinqConnect models)
The behaviour is changed: now the 'Read Only' property is not set to true for autoincrement fields by default when creating/updating models (LinqConnect models)
The bug with generating a code for the initialization of the boolean property is fixed (LinqConnect models)

7.2.132 29-Nov-12

Visual Studio 2005 support is discontinued
The overload for the MySqlDependency.Start method with the MySqlConnection parameter is added

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The fluent mapping is improved: support of the ID generators for primary keys is added
The bug with the "Specified cast is not valid" exception when searching for an entity by its key is fixed
The bug with the failed updates to the database when using the Attach(TEntity,Boolean) method is fixed

Entity Developer

The possibility to set different namespaces for the context and its entities when using the DbContext template is implemented (Entity Framework models)
The bug with generating the using directives for redundant namespaces is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with renaming the navigation property when using the Update Model From Database wizard is fixed (LinqConnect models)

Entity Framework support

The bug with the IgnoreSchemaName and IgnoreDboSchemaName options when working with EdmFunction is fixed

7.2.122 15-Nov-12

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bugs with using LinqConnect for Dynamic Data projects under .NET Framework 4.0 or higher are fixed

7.2.114 01-Nov-12

The bug with sending the commit and rollback events for connections in the distributed transaction to dbMonitor is fixed
The bug with reading data from a column of type "BIT(1)" in a variable of type "Int32" is fixed
The bug with usage of distributed transactions is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with availability of the Yes/No/Cancel options when saving models created with previous versions of Entity Developer is fixed

Entity Framework support

The bug with retrieving entities using Guid constants or the .Contains operation for Guid collection is fixed

7.2.104 18-Oct-12

The bug with the MySqlScript.CommandTimeout property not changing its value when setting the DefaultCommandTimeout parameter of the connection string is fixed
The bug with the new line character in the connection string is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with working with entities without INotifyPropertyChanging, INotifyPropertyChanged interfaces is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with disposing EntityCommand in the code generated for calling stored procedure is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The bug with DropDatabase() and CreateDatabase(), when DeleteDatabaseBehaviour.ModelObjectsOnly is used, in EF v4.3 and higher is fixed
The bug with DropDatabase() and CreateDatabase(), when IgnoreDboSchemaName option is enabled and DeleteDatabaseBehaviour.Schema is used, in EF v4.3 and higher is fixed

7.2.96 04-Oct-12

The bug with deploying Analysis Services Project when using the x64 version of SQL Server Analysis Service is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug related to the "An item with the same key has already been added" exception when working with DevExpress GridView is fixed
The bug with synchronization of the parent and child entities is fixed

Entity Developer

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 behaviour is changed: the "Save connection string in App.Config as" option is available for LinqConnect models in the standalone version Entity Developer (the entry in App.Config must be added manually afterwards)

Entity Framework support

The bug with setting configuration options via the application config file is fixed
The bug with setting the configuration options for Entity Framework v1 is fixed

7.2.77 06-Sep-12

Visual Studio 2012 is supported
The bug with command execution, being not terminated on the server when the command timeout specified in the CommandTimeout property has expired, is fixed
The bug with returning 0 instead of -1 for all statements except UPDATE, DELETE, INSERT statements is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with getting entities from the cache by keys of type Int16 is fixed
The bug with getting entities directly from the cache for the command First (predicate) etc, is fixed
The bug with wrong parameters when loading dependent entities with two-level LoadOptions are set is fixed

Entity Developer

Support for ADO.NET Entity Framework 5 is added
The 'Entity Base' class property, which allows specifying the ancestor class/interface for a particular entity type, is implemented (LinqConnect models)
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 (LinqConnect models)

Entity Framework support

ADO.NET Entity Framework 5 is supported
The behaviour is changed: Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.Migrations.dll is built with the 4.4 version of EntityFramework.dll now
The bug with using command delimiters when generating the Code-First Migrations script in Package Manager Console of Visual Studio is fixed

7.1.58 09-Aug-12

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with creating DataContext with complex types having no default mapping is fixed
The bug with modifying the list of tracked entities when it is being enumerated is fixed
The bug with clearing the collection of depending entities is fixed
The bug with datetime literals as default COALESCE arguments is fixed

Entity Developer

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

Entity Framework support

The config.QueryOptions.UseCSharpNullComparisonBehavior configuration option for checking for NULL when comparing a nullable property (column) or an expression with a variable (parameter) in LINQ to Entities is implemented (by default, false)

7.1.40 17-Jul-12

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with enumerating queries that have empty result sets is fixed
The bug with materializing query results into invalid object properties is fixed
The query cache bug with distinguishing compiled queries that have nullable parameters is fixed
The bug with deleting many-to-many links of entity having multiple many-to-many associations is fixed

Entity Developer

The behaviour is changed: the warning, related to the missing property setter, is disabled (LinqConnect models)
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 (LinqConnect models)
The behaviour is changed: the properties, that correspond autoincrement fields, are generated with a ReadOnly keyword in VB.NET (LinqConnect models)

Entity Framework support

The support of the MySQL full-text search functionality is implemented
The MySqlTextFunctions class for working with full-text search functions in LINQ to Entities is added
The MySqlCreateIndexConfiguration class for creating full-text indexes in CreateIndex operation in Code-First Migrations is added
The MySqlCreateTableConfiguration class for customizing the CreateTable operation (setting storage engine) in Code-First Migrations is added
The possibility of setting configuration options via the application config file is implemented
The Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.xsd file is added to the installation in order to simplify setting and validating the application config file settings when using the XML Editor
Code-First Migrations now supports specifying which schema (database) a table belongs to
The config.Workarounds.IgnoreDboSchemaName configuration option is added. The option is automatically set to True, if Code-First (Migrations) EF v4.x/5.x is used
CASE generation is improved
The behaviour is changed: in case of using Code-First (Migrations) EF v4.x/5.x the schema name 'dbo' will be ignored by default

7.0.25 21-Jun-12

The 'Found Rows' connection string parameter is implemented (defines whether the MySqlDataReader.AffectedRows property counts all rows satisfying the WHERE clause of a command)

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with deleting the entity and its many-to-many bunches outside the batch is fixed

Entity Developer

The "Pluralize collection navigation properties" option for the possibility to turn off the pluralization of the many-end names of associations is implemented
The "sealed override" inheritance modifier for methods based on stored procedures and functions is added (LinqConnect models)
The bug with copy/pasting entities having a common relation is fixed
The bug with generating redundant column in SSDL when setting one-to-one association in the designer is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with generating the MSL mapping for one-to-one association is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with the displaying many-to-many associations in the Association Editor is fixed (LinqConnect models)
The bug with specifying the custom tool for LinqConnect models being added to web sites is fixed (LinqConnect models)
The bug with mapping generation for associations with the 'Delete On Null' rule enabled is fixed (LinqConnect models)
The bug with mapping generation for entity types having multiple complex types is fixed (LinqConnect models)

7.0.17 07-Jun-12

Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate is supported
The Initialization Command connection string parameter is implemented
The MemCryptStorage class for storing SSL certificates in the application memory is implemented
The behaviour is changed: the 'sender' parameter in MonitorEventHandler is a connection and the MonitorEventArgs.ExtraInfo property is filled with the connection string

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The CreateDatabase bug with creating a table for an entity type with multiple complex type fields is fixed
The CreateDatabase bug with creating a table for an entity type with no primary key is fixed
The bug with 'IS NULL' checks for non-nullable columns is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with the failure to read the complex type's Access property value is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with saving *.edml when importing data from *.edmx is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The config.CodeFirstOptions.RemoveSchemaFromDefaultConstraintName option for removing schema name from the default constraint name is implemented in Code-First Migrations (by default, true)
The config.CodeFirstOptions.AddTableNameInDefaultIndexName option for adding a table name to the default index name is implemented in Code-First Migrations (by default, true)
The MySqlRenameColumnConfiguration class is added for the possibility of setting column definition for the RenameColumn operation in Code-First Migrations
The MySqlAddForeignKeyConfiguration class for the customization of the AddForeignKey operation (setting ON UPDATE and ON DELETE actions) in Code-First Migrations is added
The behaviour is changed: an exception is generated for the default RenameColumn operation which is without column definition in Code-First Migrations
The behaviour is changed: ON UPDATE NO ACTION is generated for the AddForeignKey operation by default now in Code-First Migrations
The bug with quoting indexes in Code-First Migrations is fixed
The bug with HistoryTable in Code-First Migrations when using the DisableQuoting option is fixed
The bug with generating invalid SQL statement for the DropPrimaryKey operation in Code-First Migrations is fixed
The bug with adding a schema prefix to default constraint name (PK and FK) in Code-First Migrations is fixed

7.0.6 22-May-12

The behaviour is changed: the access modifier of the connectionString field of web provider classes is changed from private to protected

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

References to System.Data.Linq are removed; now LinqConnect uses only its own classes
Upgrade wizard for upgrading projects to the new version of LinqConnect automatically is added
The possibility to choose cache mode (classic mode for cases when DataContext is used as a unit of work, and self-cleaning mode for cases when DataContext is a long-lived object) is added
The possibility to map stored procedure out parameters of the CURSOR type to IEnumerable parameters of the corresponding methods is added
Tracking of complex object graphs with chains of parent-child objects is optimized
Number of database calls required for managing objects with a many-to-many association is reduced
Delete rule performance is improved
Compilation performance is improved
Materialization performance is improved
Compiled query cache is improved

Entity Developer

The precision facet for DateTime and Time properties is supported
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
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 (Entity Framework models)
The behaviour is changed: the CSDL property is left unchanged when the corresponding SSDL property is regenerated (Entity Framework models)
The behaviour is changed: the association names are generated basing on the database FK names when using Database First approach (Entity Framework models)
The bug with reading one-to-many associations from the *.edmx file is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with "DevartEntityDeploy" task when only .NET Framework 4 is installed is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with closing connection in the generated method of the context is fixed (Entity Framework models)
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 (Entity Framework models)
The bug with incorrect saving of method's extended properties is fixed (LinqConnect models)

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework 5.0 Release Candidate is supported
The support of fractional seconds for TIME, DATETIME and TIMESTAMP in Entity Data Model Wizard/Generate Database Wizard and Code-First CreateDatabase functionality is added

6.80.350 26-Apr-12

Entity Developer

The multiline popup editor for the Documentation.Summary property is implemented
The bug with metadata processing in Visual Studio 11 Beta is fixed (Entity Framework models)

6.80.341 12-Apr-12

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with the performance issues when generating complex queries is fixed

Entity Developer

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
The bug with creating LinqConnect models is fixed
The bug with detecting many-to-many associations is fixed (Entity Framework models)

6.80.332 29-Mar-12

The handling of empty options in the connection string is improved
The bug with freezing for a ConnectionTimeOut time in case of a connection error when using SSH protocol is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with the generation of SQL queries including grouping by the whole entity is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with model saving after performing copy/paste of an element with a custom attribute is fixed
The bug with incorrect generation of a create database script in the "Generate Database Script" wizard for Entity Framework models, 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 (Entity Framework models)
The bug with the "Update Model From Database" wizard showing isVersion columns as changed is fixed (LinqConnect models)

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework 5.0 Beta 2 is supported
The behaviour is changed: Devart.Data.MySql.Entity.Migrations.dll is built with the 4.3.1 version of EntityFramework.dll now
The bug with using expression aliases in complex queries is fixed

6.80.325 15-Mar-12

Visual Studio 11 Beta is supported

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with column order in queries including the UNION clause is fixed
The bug with InvalidOperationException on disposing data contexts is fixed

Entity Developer

The copy/cut/paste functionality is added for objects of the conceptual part of a model
The possibility to drag&drop properties between classes in Model Explorer is implemented
The "HeaderTimestampVersionControlTag" generation template option is added for improving integration with version-control systems
The bug with generating code when using stored procedures with multiple result set with the POCO Entity and Self-Tracking Entity templates is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with setting StoreGeneratedPattern to Identity for foreign key property of the child class when creating an association is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with generating mappings for many-to-many association of entity to itself is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework 5.0 Beta 1 is supported
SQL generation for .Any method in LINQ to Entities is improved

6.70.311 27-Feb-12

Entity Developer

The validation of method parameters in LinqConnect models is added
The context menu options for unchecking changed/added/dropped tables are implemented for the root nodes in the "Update To/From Database" wizards
The possibility to rename the storage part of the model in Model Explorer is implemented (Entity Framework models)
The diagram design is changed: an arrow (instead of a triangle) is used on the tip of an association now
The bug with setting comments for columns and tables in database is fixed

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework 4.3 (Code First Migrations) is supported
The conversion of .StartsWith, .Contains, .EndsWith to LIKE clause in the generated SQL for the case of expression-based condition is supported
The Code-First Migrations behaviour is changed: if the nullable value of the property in migration is not set explicitly, the corresponding column will be created nullable

6.70.302 09-Feb-12

Entity Developer

The "Identifier Case Sensitive" check box, which enables case-sensitive processing of database object identifier names, is added to MySQL Server Options
The behaviour is changed: the MySqlDump.HexBlob property now affects Binary and VarBinary columns
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

6.70.293 27-Jan-12

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with empty spaces in foreign key names generated by the CreateDatabase() method is fixed

Entity Developer

The documentation generation for navigation properties is implemented
The "Recreate Model" option, allowing to rebuild the model from a scratch, is added to the "Update Model From Database" wizard
The "GeneratePartialClass" template property to generate a partial class, which will not be overwritten by the designer, for each class in the model is added
The stored procedures support in DbContext template in case of XML mapping is implemented (Entity Framework models)
The behaviour is changed: database column comments are transfered to the Summary attribute of the Documentation property now
The behaviour is changed: the TINYINT(1) data type is now used for the columns which correspond to the System.Boolean properties
The bug with resetting the Validate Required property after reopening model is fixed
The bug with generating System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations.KeyAttribute() for Primary Key columns is fixed
The bug with a workability of documentation links on Start Page is fixed
The bug with resetting the StoreGeneratedPattern attribute by the Update Model From Database wizard is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework 4.3 Beta 1 (Code First Migrations) is supported
The bug with removing existing stored procedures from the model in Entity Data Model Wizard, when no new stored procedures are selected, is fixed

6.60.283 12-Jan-12

Entity Developer

The documentation generation for Enum members is implemented
The "Detect function-based column default value" option for automatic setting StoreGeneratedPattern to Identity for corresponding columns is implemented for Entity Framework models (by default, false)
The algorithm for forming the Navigation Properties names, when there are several FOREIGN KEY constraints between the same tables, is changed
The behaviour is changed: the Navigation Property will not be displayed on the diagram and in Model Explorer if "Generate" is set to false for the appropriate association end
The behaviour is changed: the Validate Max Length attribute is synchronized with the Max Length attribute of Property by default now
The behaviour is changed: the Validate Required attribute is synchronized with the Nullable attribute of Property by default now
The behaviour is changed: when selecting a property in the Model Explorer, the corresponding entity on the diagram does not expand if it is collapsed
The bug with adding diagrams when the Notation parameter of the diagram "Property Details Level" is set to "Name And Type" is fixed
The bug with changing the Type property simultaneously for several inheritances is fixed
The bug with invalid Properties grid data refreshing for the selected attribute in the Attributes dialog box is fixed
The bug with formatting indents when generating code is fixed
The bug with saving inheritance layout on the diagram is fixed
The bug with incorrect model diagram saving after deleting a complex type from a diagram is fixed
The bug with invalid parameter direction in wrapper methods of stored procedures from MySQL 5.5 servers is fixed (LinqConnect models)
The bug when the names of constraints in the Store part of the model are not taken into account by Generate Database Script From Model wizard is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with Retrieve Data when using DbContext template is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bug with Table Per Hierarchy (TPH) when using abstract intermediate class between the base and derived classes is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The generation of SQL-literals for byte array is supported
The bug with using slashes in string parameters of the .Contains method is fixed

6.60.268 22-Dec-11

The bug with MySqlType.TinyInt parameter binding for a prepared statement is fixed
The bug with setting the PrimaryKey attribute of DataTable.Constraints when editing an existing DataSet using DataSet Wizard is fixed
The bug with the MySqlConnection.GetSchema("Procedures",...) method returning an incorrect type of the "Comment" column of the metadata table, when connecting to MySQL servers v 5.5.0 or later, is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with inserting entities having a many-to-many association and auto-generated keys is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with Visual Basic templates is fixed
The bug with duplicating EntitySet attribute when using entity return type is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The bug with generating CROSS JOIN statement when using LINQ to Entities is fixed
The bug with config.DmlOptions.InsertNullBehaviour for non-EntityKey columns with initialized DefaultValue and StoreGeneratedPattern is fixed

6.60.258 08-Dec-11

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with inserting both sides of a one-to-one relationship is fixed

Entity Developer

Capability for customizing the default Type Mapping Rules is implemented
Capability for setting diagram options either globally for all diagram documents or separately for a particular one is implemented: the Diagram Appearance and Printing options can now be set through the Options dialog box
Capability for setting such options as Environment, Diagram and Servers' to adjust the Entity Developer behavior, Model diagram behavior and Type Mapping Rules to your needs is implemented
Capability for setting and defining the class property validation rules based on different engines (Data Annotation, Enterprise Library, NHibernate Validator) is added
The HasStream attribute of entity types, used retrieve binary data as a stream via Open Data Protocol, is supported (Entity Framework models)
The bug with code generation for foreign key fields in Entity Framework models with fluent mapping is fixed
The bug with code generation for default values of DateTime fields is fixed (LinqConnect models)
The bug with 'losing' additional diagrams when re-opening a model is fixed

Entity Framework support

The behavior of the Database.Delete code-first method is changed: the constraints are now disabled when database objects are deleted
The config.QueryOptions.NoEscapeLike option is implemented to manage LIKE behaviour when using Linq to Entities extention methods .Contains() .EndsWith() .StartsWith()
The bug with generating SQL for EdmFunction is fixed
The bug with adding unnecessary CASTs to SQL when working with DateTime and numeric columns and expressions is fixed

6.50.250 24-Nov-11

Entity Developer

The bug related to Visual Studio crashes at query execution is fixed
The bug with removing associations when updating the model is fixed

Entity Framework support

The size of generated SQL is reduced by excluding redundant aliases

6.50.244 11-Nov-11

The bug with freezing of a connection that is not taken from the connection pool when using stored procedure is fixed
The bug with setting Port connection string parameter in Visual Studio connection editor to the value that is greater than 10000 is fixed
The bug with returning invalid connections to pool is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with updating explicitly attached entities is fixed

Entity Developer

The default attribute mapping source for LinqConnect models is made static
Behaviour is changed: table is not marked as "Changed" in Update Wizard if DefaultValue is set for its expression column
The bug with detecting whether Devart Entity Model is changed or not is fixed
The bug with NRE being thrown when an invalid connection is used is fixed
The bug with setting the Concealed Function property in Stored Procedure Editor is fixed
The bug with the local settings used for the default value of DateTime fields is fixed (LinqConnect models)
The bug with creating an association between classes participating in a TPC inheritance hierarchy is fixed (Entity Framework models)
The bugs with storage synchronization for TPC inheritance classes is fixed

Entity Framework support

The bug with determining correct data types in columns of descendants in TPT and TPC hierarchies is fixed
The bug with the TimeSpan parameters is fixed
The bug with the Group By expression is fixed

6.50.237 19-Oct-11

The GEOMETRYCOLLECTION, LINESTRING, MULTIPOINT, MULTIPOLYGON, and POINT data types are supported by MySqlCommandBuilder.DeriveParameters()
The bug with license check in ILMerged assembly in Mobile Edition is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with getting wrong query from the compiled query cache is fixed
The bug with ordering results of a query with eager loading options enabled is fixed
The bug with inserting entity objects having multiple relations to other entity type with auto-generated primary key is fixed
The bug with updating navigation properties based on a composite foreign key which intersects with the primary key is fixed

Entity Developer

The possibility of specifying the name of the connection string to be saved in the application configuration file is implemented
The bug with saving the IsFlags property of enum types in Entity Framework models is fixed

Entity Framework support

The bug with config.Workarounds.DisableQuoting behaviour with checking DatabaseExists is fixed

6.50.228 29-Sep-11

The bug with licensing WinForms projects in Delphi Prism is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with ordering queries with eager loading options is fixed
The bug with caching queries performed via the ExecuteQuery method is fixed
The bug with .Equals(null) conditions in LINQ queries is fixed

Entity Developer

Disabling facets that are not applicable to the current field type is implemented (LinqConnect models)
The 'Binary As Guid' connection string parameter is supported
Default behaviour changed: now the Update To Database Wizard does not drop foreign keys of a table if the 'master' one is not represented in the LinqConnect model
The bug with saving a new solution provided that the Visual Studio option for 'Projects and Solutions -> Save new projects when created' is unchecked is fixed
The bug with pluralization algorithm is fixed when Naming rules are defined
The 'The given key was not present in the dictionary' error in the Entity Developer version integrated into Visual Studio 2010 is fixed
The bug with incorrect determining of association multiplicity (redundant 'many-to-many') in LinqConnect models is fixed
The bug with setting Extended Properties for RelationProperty is fixed

Entity Framework support

The 'Binary As Guid' connection string parameter is supported in Entity Framework runtime and Entity Data Model Wizard
The bug with executing Function Imports with enabled BatchUpdates is fixed
The bug with Entity Data Model Wizard when creating a model is fixed
The bug when MySqlEntityProviderWorkaroundConfig.IgnoreSchemaName does not affect stored procedures is fixed
The bug with canonical function CreateDateTime is fixed

6.50.214 06-Sep-11

The MySqlDump.HexBlob property for making dump in hexadecimal format for BLOB is implemented
The bug with the resource file in Mobile Samples which are shipped with provider is fixed
The bug with MySqlConnection.Kill() method is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Fluent Mapping support is added
The bug with inserting a TPT 'child' entity in case its primary key column names differ from the 'parent' entity ones is fixed
The bug with deleting dependent entities when other changes were made is fixed
The bug with entity materialization for queries with multiple eager loading options is fixed
The bug with saving (inserting or updating) System.Data.Linq.Binary objects is fixed

Entity Developer

Fluent Mapping template for LinqConnect models is added
Support for enumerated types ("enums") in LinqConnect and Entity Framework June 2011 CTP models is implemented
Import for selected stored procedures into the context model for Entity Framework models is implemented
New skins to improve the apllication appearance are implemented
Selection driven highlighting is implemented
Capability for changing the shape color for entities, complex types and enums is implemented
Capability for selecting the diagram skin type is implemented
Changed behaviour: when the FirstLetterUpperCase / FirstLetterLowerCase option is enabled in Naming rules, each letter after underscore will be capital/lower
The bug with saving custom attribute properties with default values in .edml files is fixed
The bug with changing property names ("Index was outside the bounds of the array") is fixed
The bug with an incorrect generation of the private variables names in Entity Framework models is fixed

Entity Framework support

The possibility to turn off generation of fake updates for parent entities is implemented

6.30.202 11-Aug-11

The support of events which occur when connections are taken and returned to pool for processing MySqlMonitor.TraceEvent is added

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with deleting dependent entities when the 'main' one is modified is fixed
The bug with update commands for Table Per Type inheritance is fixed

Entity Developer

The pluralization algorithm is improved when Naming rules are defined

6.30.196 28-Jul-11

The UnixSocket protocol type is supported
The bug with SSL connection opened under Network Service account is fixed

Entity Developer

The Entity Key handling for Views in Update From Database Wizard in Entity Framework models is improved
The bug with wrong error placing in Model Explorer in Entity Framework models is fixed
The bug with regeneration of the ed:Guid attribute of navigation properties after Update From Database wizard completes is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

The TINYINT(1) to Boolean mapping in Entity Data Model Wizard/Update From Database Wizard when connection string includes "Tiny As Boolean=true;" is supported
The processing of LINQ expressions which work with literals is improved
The bug with insert into Identity single-column table is fixed

6.30.185 07-Jul-11

The bug with securityTrimmingEnabled option of Site Map provider is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The bug with the 'Cannot remove an entity that has not been attached' error when using compiled queries is fixed

Entity Developer

The possibility to export the diagram into an image file was added
The Tiny As Boolean connection string parameter handling is added in Entity Framework models
The possibility to restrict adding the connection string information to the application configuration file is added
The changes in the Entity name are now preserved by Update From Database Wizard (Entity Framework models)
The bug with the 'condition' keyword in the script created by the Generate Database Wizard is fixed
The bug with default value quotation in Entity Framework models is fixed
The bug with Save All for the Read Only model files in Entity Framework models is fixed
The bug with deleting associations on update from database in LinqConnect models is fixed
The bug with Primary Key naming in case of many-to-many associations in Model First is fixed (LinqConnect models)

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework 4.2 June 2011 CTP is supported

6.30.172 15-Jun-11

Pluggable Authentication via MySQL client library is supported
The bug with parameters in Microsoft DataSet Designer is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

The 'IsReference' mode of entity serialization is supported
The generation of auto-increment columns on the CreateDatabase call is implemented
The bug with querying entity tables having no primary key is fixed
The bug with ArgumentException on accessing DataContext.Table when the TEntity class has user-defined properties is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with Extended Properties handling is fixed
The bug with setting the multiplicity of updated constraint in Entity Framework models is fixed

Entity Framework support

The update functionality for default values is improved
The bug with Default Value and the Identity columns is fixed

6.30.165 01-Jun-11

The bug with license check in ILMerged assembly is fixed
The bug with displaying table names in DataSet Wizard when connecting to MySQL server 4.1 is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Implemented fetch mode customization for eager loading of related entities
The bug with NullReferenceException when selecting non-entity types is fixed
The bug with type mismatch when using null parameters in LINQ queries is fixed
The bug with refreshing entities with a changed entity reference is fixed
The bug with updating entities that have associations based on unique (not primary) keys is fixed
The bug with parameters of compiled queries not being refreshed is fixed

Entity Developer

The bug with configuring a sequence ID generator in LinqConnect models is fixed
The bug with LinqConnect external mapping file in case entity classes belong to non-default namespace is fixed
The bug with persisting associations between LinqConnect entity classes inherited from the same base class is fixed
The bug with Visual Basic code generation for related entities sets is fixed
The bug with Unicode symbols in template is fixed

Entity Framework support

Processing of Edm.StartsWith, Edm.Contains, and Edm.EndsWith is improved
The concurrency check processing is improved for updatable entities with specified StoreGeneratedPattern

6.30.160 17-May-11

DbTransactionBase class is added
TransactionStateChanging and TransactionStateChanged events are added to the DbConnectionBase class
Implemented GetUInt16(), GetUInt32(), GetUInt64(), and GetSByte() methods of MySqlDataReader class
Policy file for the Devart.Data.MySql.Entity assembly is added
The License Information Wizard is improved: it now generates licenses for projects that have Entity Framework models or refer to Devart.Data.MySql.Web, but have no direct references to Devart.Data.MySql.dll
The "Use schema name" checkbox is added to DataSet Wizard
The bug with Membership provider compatibility between .NET Framework 2.0 and 4.0 is fixed
The bug with launching Devart documentation via Start menu is fixed
The bug with "Bad handshake" exception when connecting to MySQL servers v 5.1.57 and 5.5.12 is fixed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Implemented eager loading in case the related entities collection is referenced in the select clause of the query
The bug with incorrect operation order during SubmitChanges() calls is fixed
The bug with ArgumentExceptions thrown in background threads is fixed
The bug with using public properties when refreshing or materializing an entity is fixed
The bug with grouping a collection by a whole entity is fixed

Entity Developer

New Templates are added:
- LinqConnect: 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
Implemented runtime support for literals specified in the 'Default Value' entity field property for LinqConnect models
The "Preserve schema name in storage" option is added
The bug with code generation for the 'Delete Rule' association property in LinqConnect models is fixed
The bug with generation of attach/detach methods for many-to-many associations in LinqConnect models is fixed
The bug with external mapping for LinqConnect models is fixed
The bug with default values set via a function for string fields in LinqConnect models is fixed
The bug with the "Access" combobox of the Association editor in LinqConnect models is fixed
The bug with procedures that differ only by name in Database Explorer is fixed (Entity Framework models)

Entity Framework support

Batch Updates support is added
Adjustable SQL Formatting for DML commands is added
Ability to configure the NULL values inserting behaviour is added
IgnoreSchemaName workaround (mainly for Code First) is added
DisableQuoting workaround is added
MySqlFunctions.Like support (including LINQ to Entities) is added
Configurable database deletion and creation support is added
The bug with Entity Framework configurability is fixed

6.10.141 19-Apr-11

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Fixed bug with invalid aliases in queries that include the UNION clause
Fixed bug with simultaneous insert of both sides of a one-to-one association when the 'master' side has auto-generated ID

Entity Framework support

Entity Framework 4.1 RTW supported

6.10.135 06-Apr-11

Fixed bug with upgrading *.cs files in App_Code folder when using Upgrade Wizard

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Implemented the Attach(object entity, object original) method of the Devart.Data.Linq.ITable interface

Entity Developer

Fixed bug with multiplicity changing in the association editor (Entity Framework models)

6.10.126 23-Mar-11

Supported Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1
Fixed bug with upgrading *.ascx files when using Upgrade Wizard

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Fixed bug with inserting 'detail' entities together with 'master' ones for one-to-one associations

Entity Developer

Changed behaviour: when adding two related entities with the corresponding properties having different types, an invalid association is created now
Changed default mapping for signed TinyInt columns: they are mapped to SByte now
Fixed bug with generating incorrect code for models having one-to-one associations with a nullable property at the 'detail' side
Fixed bug with generating script with duplicate columns for entities having two fields of the same complex type

Entity Framework support

Supported Entity Framework 4.1 Release Candidate
Fixed bug with incorrect column name generation on update in case of Timestamp column having Computed StoreGenerationPattern

6.10.121 11-Mar-11

Fixed bug with the "The message filter indicated that the application is busy" error during uninstall
Fixed bug with DataLink.Find() method
Fixed bug with System.OutOfMemoryException when retrieving BLOB values in SSL mode

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Implemented implicit sorting by the entity key in queries with defined LoadWith rules
Fixed bug with calling the base Devart.Data.Linq.DataContext constructor with the mapping argument

Entity Developer

Fixed bug with discarding changes in Navigation Properties names

Entity Framework support

Fixed bug with missing Order By clause in subqueries

6.10.111 24-Feb-11

Added DDEX support in Express Edition
Supported SQL Server Reporting Services x64
Fixed bug with resetting CopyLocal property of Devart references to False after using Upgrade Wizard
Fixed bug with unicode characters when using Upgrade Wizard
Fixed bug with compatibility with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools (broken designers for WPF, Silverlight, etc)
Fixed Visual Studio integration conflict with Windows Phone Developer Tools
Fixed bug with generating commands by MySqlCommandBuilder on Mono

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Fixed bug with deserializing LinqConnect exceptions
Fixed bug with creating auto-incremented columns with the DataContext.CreateDatabase method
Fixed bug with attaching entities as modified to DataContext

Entity Developer

Added sorting in the 'Return Type' ComboBox for methods in the Properties window
Fixed code generation for many-to-many associations when the Unidirectional serialization mode is enabled (LinqConnect models)
Fixed some bugs in Table Per Concrete Type (TPC) design time support in Entity Framework models
Fixed bug with wrong Metadata Artifact Processing setting for Web Site projects in Entity Framework models
Fixed bug with the Update From Database Wizard showing no changes when connecting under a user account with limited privileges

6.10.103 09-Feb-11

Fixed bug with provider's workability on big-endian operating systems
Fixed bug with SSL key container when it is used by several Windows accounts

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Changed behaviour: update check is now disabled by default for properties that represent MySQL FLOAT columns
Fixed bug with setting no reference to the Devart.Data.Linq.Web assembly when adding a DbLinqDataSource object to a web form
Fixed bug with creating a new MySQL database with the DataContext.CreateDatabase method
Fixed bug with retrieving entities participating in a many-to-many association with a composite key
Fixed bug with continuing identity tracking for deleted entities
Fixed bug with incorrect order of executing create/update/delete commands on SubmitChanges()

Entity Developer

Added ConstraintSet property for Constraints in the Store part of the Entity Framework model
Added mapping for Function Import result types (Entity Framework v4 only)
Changed behaviour: classes created with the Update From Database Wizard are now added to the current diagram
Changed behaviour: the 'Update Check' is now set to 'Always' and disabled for properties that form the entity key (LinqConnect models)
Fixed bug with wrong Complex Type properties in Stored Procedures
Fixed bug with the 'Show Print Markup' button and 'Page Setup' menu item being disabled

6.10.96 27-Jan-11

Supported IFormattable interface in MySqlDecimal class
Added BeginTransaction value to the MonitorEventType enum
Implemented the DbMonitor.EventQueueLimit property which allows to set the maximal allowed number of messages waiting for being processed by the dbMonitor application
Fixed bug with incorrect EventType passed to TraceEvent of DbMonitor

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Fixed bug with repeated creation of DataContexts with external mapping
Fixed bug with many-to-many associations based on composite keys

Entity Developer

Added possibility to split model into several diagrams for better handling of large models
Implemented possibility to disable automatic recognition of many-to-many associations
Fixed bug with handling errors when accessing server via an invalid connection
Fixed bug with generating code for methods returning scalar result in Entity Framework models
Fixed bug with adding associated tables from the Store part of the model to designer in Entity Framework models
Fixed bug with bit(1) mapping to bigint in Entity Framework models
Fixed bug with opening models that have invalid connection strings

Entity Framework support

Fixed bug with TruncateTime canonical function

6.00.86 12-Jan-11

Changed behaviour: setting the DbDataTable.Connection property sets the InsertCommand.Connection, UpdateCommand.Connection, and DeleteCommand.Connection properties
Fixed bug with incorrect case of data sources shown in the DataLink.DataSource property when using the Interform technology

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Fixed bug with incorrect detaching entities in the master/detail association
Fixed bug with VB code generation for models with Unidirectional serialization
Fixed bug with creating DataContext using external mapping

Entity Developer

Fixed bug with many-to-many and Update From Database Wizard

Entity Framework support

Added support for Entity Framework CTP 5
Improved DatabaseExists functionality

6.00.69 16-Dec-10

Supported Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta
Implemented the MySqlScript.Delimiter property
Added "Transaction Scope Local" connection string option that enables the support for non-distributed transactions in the TransactionScope implementation
Improved interface in DbLoader class - added string and integer indexers
Added overloads for methods of DbDataReaderBase class with column name parameter
Changed behaviour: when clearing the pool, the number of connections specified in 'Min Pool Size' is never removed

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Implemented support for custom type arguments in LinqConnect compiled queries
Fixed bug with redundant subqueries and Order By clauses in commands generated for entities with configured load options
Fixed bug with Visual Basic code generation for sequence-generated entity properties
Fixed bug with the DataContext.Query<TResult> method in the case when TResult is not an entity class
Fixed bug with the 'The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception' error on severely loaded applications
Fixed bug with inserting new rows into tables with auto-generated fields

Entity Developer

Fixed bug with the null-reference exception when adding LinqConnect model to web site folders other than App_Code
Fixed bug with decimal default value generation

Entity Framework support

Entity Data Model Wizard and Update Model from Database Wizard in Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta supported
Improved SQL generation for IN (Entity SQL) and Contains (LINQ to Entities) clauses

6.00.58 29-Nov-10

Added the 'Validate Connection' connection string parameter to validate connection on its retrieving from pool
Fixed bug with validating connections in pool
Fixed bug with WebSite projects in Delphi Prism

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Ability to execute DML statements in batches on SubmitChanges added
Table Per Type inheritance supported
Supported ASP.NET Dynamic Data with ASP.NET Dynamic Data project templates
PLINQ support added (connection manager redesigned for thread safety)
Supported Visual Studio Debugger Visualizer with SQL syntax highlighting for the DataQuery objects
Implemented overloads of DataContext.CreateDatabase and DeleteDatabase methods with boolean parameters specifying whether to create/delete database or not
Changed behaviour: retrieving master entity from details one now generates left outer join instead of inner join
Fixed bug with default mappings for Medium-, Large- and TinyBlob data types

Entity Developer

Added Update Model From Database functionality
Update To Database with Storage Synchronization functionality added
Added possibility for changing the UpdateCheck property for several fields at once
Added multiselect support for properties
Improved large models handling
Fixed bug with IndexOutOfRangeException on code generation
Fixed bug with keyword quotation in the Source property
Fixed bug with Unknown parameter direction
Fixed "Cannot find column Position" bug
Fixed bug with Visual Basic code generation for stored functions
Fixed bug with not loading Master property in Detail entity of master/details associations
Fixed bug with mapping One-to-One associations to One-to-Many
Fixed bug with Default Value in Entity Framework models
Fixed bug with default editor in Visual Studio
Fixed bug with associations that crash Visual Studio
Fixed bug with Guid and inheritance
Fixed 'Model is not registered' bug
Fixed bug with Retrieve Data
Fixed some bugs in Team Foundation Server support

5.80.190 04-Nov-10

Implemented integration with Visual Web Developer 2008 and 2010 Express editions
Implemented the BackupQuery method of MySqlDump for dumping result sets

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Improved transaction behaviour in case when exception is thrown
Added support for the String.Equals(string, StringComparison) overload, allowing to specify whether to use or not the binary string comparison
Fixed bug with translating the IIf method in LINQ queries
Fixed bug with custom methods in the 'select new' clause of LINQ queries
Fixed bug with not loading associated entity when LoadWith is not used
Fixed bug with creating tables with LongBlob fields on CreateDatabase()

Entity Framework support

Model First support improved

Added more settings in Devart SSDLToMySql.tt file
DROP statements generation added
Schema name is not generated before each object

5.80.180 14-Oct-10

Fixed bug with generating license resource for ILMerged assembly

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

DataContext class is now CLS-Compilant
Fixed bug with DataLoadOptions not working when object tracking is disabled
Fixed bug with second-level details loading
Fixed bug with creating compiled query using more than three parameters
Fixed bug with select queries from tables with no primary key
Fixed bug with constraint violation on inserting details before master data
Fixed bug with ArgumentException when using System.Nullable.GetValueOrDefault in Visual Basic LINQ queries
Fixed bug with incorrect marking of changed fields when using several DataContexts
Fixed problem with recognizing MySql numeric type synonyms

Entity Developer

Added default bindings to entity fields in Insert(Update/Delete) MethodMappings
Fixed bug with serializing entities loaded using DataLoadOptions

Entity Framework support

Added implementation for the DatabaseExists method

5.80.170 23-Sep-10

Implemented host option for current process in dbMonitor
Added possibility for tracing the distributed transactions in DBMonitor
Fixed the 'Retrieving the COM class factory for component ... failed' error during installation on x64 machines
Fixed bug with Minimal+LINQ installation
Fixed bug with enlisting ASP.NET provider's activity to distributed transaction
Fixed bug with assertion failure on show call tree in dbMonitor

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Fixed bug with editing Entity Key values
Fixed bug with IndexOutOfRangeException on the DeleteOnSubmit call
Fixed bug on inserting new rows into a table with many-to-many association
Fixed bug with fetching records one-by-one from the 'detail' table in master/details relation
Fixed bug with retrieving entities of an inherited type
Fixed bugs with using the Contains method of empty arrays
Fixed bug with the RejectChanges method not working
Fixed bug with structs in queries
Fixed bug with Command Timeout
Fixed the 'invalid type mapping' bug when using TimeSpan in a primary key

Entity Developer

Fixed bug with VB Code generation for Associations
Fixed bug with Unidirectional serialization mode
Fixed design time bug with Referential constraints
Fixed bug with generating code for stored procedures with out parameters

5.80.152 28-Jul-10

Implemented capability of extending base functionality of ASP.NET providers
Added support for Enterprise Library 5
Changed the primary key of the aspnet_sessions table for ASP.NET Web providers (the ApplicationName column added)
Fixed bug with DataTable in design time when using DevExpress XtraReport
Fixed bug with creating connection in Server Explorer (connections are removed after uninstall now)

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Added implementation of the ITable interface for the Table class
Changed DataContext.Log output format for Microsoft compatibility reasons
Fixed bug with creating XmlMappingSource object when the File Per Class model property is set to true
Fixed bug with IndexOutOfRangeException on the Refresh call
Fixed bug with CompiledQueryCache
Fixed bug with InvalidCastException on selecting a new anonymous type
Fixed bug with FilePerClass and XMLMappingSource

Entity Developer

Added possibility of renaming associations in the model
Fixed bug with change tracking for inherited tables

Entity Framework support

Fixed bug with association mapping in case of inheritance

5.80.146 07-Jul-10

Fixed bug with membership provider (connection is not opened on Initialize() now)
Fixed bug with model registration in web applications
Fixed bug with Guid parameters for Unicode database
Fixed bug with mapping of binary fields in typed DataSets
Fixed bug with the MySQLCommand.Prepare method for stored procedures
Fixed bug with 'release' reserved keyword

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

Improved select performance
Improved insert performance
Added support for the DatabaseExists method
Fixed bug with Concat()
Fixed bug with the CacheStoreReader and Cast

Entity Developer

Fixed bug with column Summary serialization
Fixed bug with Visual Basic code generation template

Entity Framework support

Fixed bug with the DevartEntityDeploy build action
Fixed bug with the unnecessary trigger and sequence generation

5.80.140 20-May-10

Supported password salt in ASP.NET membership provider
Supported keyboard-interactive SSH protocol authentication
Improved Upgrade wizard
Fixed bug with Upgrade Wizard on web sites
Fixed bug with disposing data table with InterForm ParentRelation
Fixed bug with lost InterForm connection
Fixed bug with filling DevExpress ASPxGridView in Auto DataPagingMode of MySqlDataSource
Fixed bug with hashed passwords in Membership provider

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to MySQL)

LINQ to MySQL support is renamed to LinqConnect
Added support for Complex type
Added support for different configurable algorithms for primary key generation
Automatic configurable compiled query caching supported
Performance improved
Fixed bug with DbLinqDataSource and RadGrid paging
Fixed bug with 'Nop' node translation
Fixed bug with empty type in specific Group By clause
Fixed bug with ArgumentNullException on DataContext.Query().Contains()
Fixed bug with Cast() method
Fixed bug with binary primary keys

Entity Developer

Fixed bug with Properties window
Fixed bug with Discriminator property drag&drop
Fixed bug on Customization window load
Fixed bug with property editor grid updating
Fixed bug with Document.Reload
Fixed bug with LINQ models on Windows XP 64-bit

Entity Framework support

Fixed bug with string concatenation
Fixed bug with data type mapping in function result set

5.70.124 15-Apr-10

Supported Visual Studio 2010

Entity Developer

Support for ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 added

Entity Framework support

Supported ADO.NET Entity Framework 4

5.70.120 31-Mar-10

Supported Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate
Install Wizard improved (ability to automatically uninstall previous version added)
ADO.NET Data Services v1.5 CTP2 supported
Added possibility to avoid connecting to dbMonitor.exe when using DbMonitor ancestors
Supported geometry types via Well-Known Binary (WKB) format
Added MySqlConnection.ClearAllPools(bool force) method
Added support for SSH known_hosts file
Fixed bug with licensing in Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate projects
Fixed bug with exception in License Information window
Fixed bug with no exception on command timeout
Fixed bug with multiple rows constraint generation

LINQ to MySQL

Added support for specific dynamic expressions
Fixed bug with Refresh() method
Fixed bug with LoadWith() method
Fixed the 'Unable to cast object' problem
Fixed bug with Where() and nullable parameter
Fixed bug with multiple LoadWith() calls
Fixed bug with calling a method in the Select clause
Fixed "Cannot Refresh Entity" error
Fixed bug with nullable boolean and null comparison
Fixed "Cannot access a disposed object" error
Fixed bug with "select new"
Fixed bug with insert of autoincremented values
Fixed bug with NotImplementedException and IGrouping.Count
Fixed the problem with group by and ordering
Fixed bug with exception on the master-detail insert
Fixed bug with Int32 instead of Int64

Entity Developer

Support for ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 Release Candidate added
Support for multi-result set methods added
Improved dialogs for editing model objects
Full integration with Visual Studio implemented
Added full support for ModificationFunctionMapping
Improved Find in Model functionality
Improved One-To-One associations handling
Fixed bug with different namespaces and procedure code generation
Fixed bug with Unicode facet serialization
Fixed problem with DevartEntityDeploySplit
Fixed problem with metadata resources generation
Fixed bug with App_Code subfolders
Fixed bug with Many-to-Many associations
Fixed several bugs in VB.NET code generation templates
Fixed bug with "Trial period expired" on 64-bit Windows
Fixed the "MSL Parsing failed" problem on some model opening
Fixed bug with Read Only attribute
Fixed bug with Storage attribute setting
Fixed bug with OtherKey attribute setting
Fixed bug with model opening in case of manual association edit
Fixed bug with Generate related property check box

Entity Framework support

Supported ADO.NET Entity Framework 4 Release Candidate
- Support for new Canonical aggregate and scalar functions added
- Ability to use standard DBMS functions in LINQ queries added
- Support for Model First (templates for DB generation) added
- Full support for Entity Data Model Wizard/Update Wizard added
Added support for methods creating and deleting the database (EF v1 and EF v4)
Fixed bug with Returning SQL
Fixed bug with exception on Generate Database from Model
Fixed bug with EndsWith method

5.50.79 14-Jan-10

Supported parameterized commands in Reporting Services
Supported stored procedures with cursors in reporting projects
Fixed bug with inability to "Copy data from one or more tables or views" in SQL Server Import and Export Wizard
Fixed bug with non-complete uninstall of dotConnect

LINQ to MySQL

Fixed the "Destabilize the runtime" problem

Entity Developer

Fixed bug with incorrect updating of the Project Explorer root node names

Entity Framework support

Fixed bug with EntitySQL BigCount function
Fixed bug with 5.4.3 server version

5.50.62 16-Dec-09

LINQ to MySQL

Added support for case-insensitive comparison
Changed exception type on the Single method not returning value
Fixed bug with redundant quering of the nullable association end
Fixed bug with DataContext.CommandTimeout

Entity Developer

Fixed bug with 'Generate Related property' serialization

5.50.57 02-Dec-09

Implemented MySqlGuid class

Entity Developer

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

5.50.54 19-Nov-09

Integration with improved dbMonitor added
Added orderid column for Site Map provider for custom map node ordering
Added some DataSet Wizard design-time improvements
Tiny As Boolean parameter added to connection string
Fixed bug with MembershipProvider.GetAllUsers() method
Fixed bug with DataLink.DataSource property after regeneration of DataSet

LINQ to MySQL

Devart DbLinqDataSource component added
Linq performance improved
Supported navigation using properties (not only keys)
Fixed issue with removing entities from EntitySet
Fixed bug with EntitySet onAdd action
Fixed bug with updating the detached object
Fixed the security problem in medium trust environment

Entity Developer

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 LINQ to SQL code generation for out-parameters
Fixed bug with procedures returning nullable types

Entity Framework support

Fixed bug with CommandText in case of stored procedures
Fixed bug with out parameters in stored procedures

5.40.49 19-Oct-09

Added SchemaTable property to DbDataTable
Added Enlist parameter to connection string

LINQ to MySQL

Fixed bug with the Attach() method
Fixed bug with updating the associated entities
Fixed the "Constant cannot be sequence" error
Fixed bug with populating DataContext.GetCommand().Parameters collection
Fixed bug with Single() method

Entity Developer

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

5.40.44 24-Sep-09

Fixed bugs in DataSet Wizard with Web Service projects
Fixed bug with licensing projects using wizard in nested folders of solution

LINQ to MySQL

Supported DataContext.CommandTimeout property
Supported DeleteOnNull attribute of association and changed default behaviour (DeleteOnNull=false now)

Entity Developer

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

Entity Framework support

Increased performance for StartsWith, Contains and EndsWith methods

5.40.42 04-Sep-09

Fixed bug with licensing Startup projects
Fixed bug with using String.Format function computed at client side
Fixed bug with TransactionScope on Dispose()

LINQ to MySQL

Fixed some CompiledQuery bugs
Fixed bug with using objects from different contexts
Fixed bug with String.IsNullOrEmpty() function

Entity Developer

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

5.40.39 06-Aug-09

TransactionScope supported
Added some installation command line options
Fixed bug with dotConnects and dbForge Fusion integration

Entity Developer

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

5.40.37 14-Jul-09

Visual Studio 2010 Beta supported
The behavior of ConnectionTimeout corrected
Ability to perform SSH authentication using public key added
HTTP tunneling improved with the new PHP script
The LocalFailover property and ConnectionLost event added for processing connection problems
ASP.NET Web Providers: Added requiresUniqueEmail functionality
Fixed bug with special symbols in the names of database objects

LINQ to MySQL

Added support of the String.IsNullOrEmpty() method
Fixed bug with nested LoadWith() methods on the query level
Fixed bug with inserting parent and several child entities in one InsertOnSubmit() when keys are db-generated
Fixed bug with the AssociateWith() method and VB.NET
Fixed bug with stored procedures and INOUT params

Entity Developer

Advanced mapping with Entity Framework QueryView supported
Displaying of Navigation properties on diagram and project explorer implemented
Ability to change properties order added
Ability to edit Referential constraints added
Ability to set OnDelete action added
Ability to set Rows Affected parameter added
Added advanced search on the model
Added dialogs for suitable storage model editing
Added support for storing connections in the configuration files
Added Entity Set Pluralization Naming Rule
Fixed bug with namespaces
Fixed bug with invisible OK button in Association Editor
Fixed bug with <edmx:*> tags
Fixed bug with XML Comments serialization

5.20.33 21-May-09

LINQ to MySQL

Added support for CompiledQuery
Removed redundant BINARY keyword
Fixed bug with the ExecuteCommand() method
Fixed bug with Distinct and count symultaneous usage
Fixed bug with DevExpress 9 integration

Entity Developer

Fixed some code generation bugs

Entity Framework support

Fixed bug with views obtaining when SQL_MODE is set to MSSQL
Fixed bug with Guid type

5.20.29 28-Apr-09

The Charset property supported
The PingInterval property for connection maintaining supported
Fixed bug with Entity Data Model Wizard in case of ANSI_QUOTES SQL Mode

LINQ to MySQL

Supported extended errors processing
Supported DataLoadOptions class and Include method for tuning data loading
Supported DeferredLoadingEnable functionality
Supported function import
Supported stored procedures as insert/update/delete behavior
Supported user-defined functions in selection part of a query
Supported CreateDatabase() and DeleteDatabase() methods
Supported SqlMethods class
Supported returning new Dictionary from query
Fixed bug with OnValidate()
Fixed bug with associations based on non-Primary keys
Fixed bug with SingleOrDefault and BLOBs
Fixed bug with update of entities that declare a version member
Fixed bug with transactions
Fixed bug with ArgumentException in the Contains() method

Entity Developer

Supported Entity Framework
Supported stored procedures and functions for LINQ to SQL
Added naming rules for database objects
Added Visual Studio integration
Stability and performance improvements
Validation schema improved
Entity Framework Complex Type supported
Entity Framework Storage Model editing supported
Many-to-Many associations retrieving added
Usability improvements

5.00.26 02-Apr-09

Fixed bug with DataSet stored procedures mapping
Fixed bug with serialization in C++ projects

5.00.22 16-Feb-09

Added CipherList property in SshOptions
Fixed bug with mapping unsigned parameters of stored procedures
Fixed bug with DbDataTable in WPF applications
Fixed bug with binding DbDataTable to ComboBox in Mobile Edition
Fixed bug with Detail command in DbDataSet ParentRelation

LINQ to MySQL

Fixed bug with refreshing field values
Fixed bug with inserting several entities with autogenerated key

5.00.20 14-Jan-09

Fixed bug with .NET Compact Framework 3.5 support
Fixed bug with encoding some special symbols in SQL queries
Fixed bug with handling ANSI strings in Vista
Fixed bug with drag-and-drop for stored procedures in Visual Studio

Entity Framework support:

Fixed bug with reading binary values

LINQ to MySQL

Fixed bug with Table.Attach function
Fixed bug with inserting and deleting entities with an associations
Fixed bug with supporting parameters IsDbGenerated, IsVersion, UpdateCheck, CanBeNull in ColumnAttribute
Fixed bug with refreshing key fields when an association is present

5.00.16 05-Dec-08

Fixed bug with null value of EntityRef field in LINQ to MySQL
Fixed bug with Queriable.Cast to interface type in LINQ to MySQL
Fixed bug with submitting changes in DbDataTable on WPF
Fixed bug with duplicate column mapping

5.00.12 13-Nov-08

MyDirect .NET renamed to dotConnect for MySQL
Supported LINQ to MySQL
Added Entity Developer for LINQ to MySQL
Added free Express Edition with basic connectivity features
Added Developer Edition, which is equivalent to the Professional Edition plus dbForge Fusion Standard
Support for .NET Framework 1.x is discontinued
Fixed bug with retrieving foreign keys metadata
Fixed bug with connection lost when QueryRecordCount is set to true
Fixed bug with converting numeric framework types to MySqlDecimal
Improved MySqlDataAdapter design time editor
Fixed bug with MySqlDataReader.RecordsAffected in batch queries
Fixed several bugs in DataSet Wizard

Entity Framework support

Supported data type synonyms CHARACTER VARYING and CHAR BYTE
NULLs can now be used in typed expressions
Fixed type mapping in models with inherited entities

4.85.36 26-Sep-08

Fixed bug with MySqlDataReader.Seek() method
Fixed bug with UniqueConstraint generation in DataSet Wizard
Fixed bug with wrong AllowDBNull mapping in DataSet Wizard
Fixed bug with SSH connections and mass row inserts
Fixed bug with wrong Relation generation after changing column mapping

Entity Framework support

Fixed stored procedure parameter type mapping

4.85.35 09-Sep-08

Fixed bug with wrong ENUM and SET columns display

Entity Framework support

Now objects in edmx models can be named without the database prefix
Fixed bug with converting GUID parameters in methods GetObjectByKey and TryGetObjectByKey

4.85.34 29-Aug-08

Fixed bug with context menu in the DataSet Manager

Entity Framework support

Supported Entity SQL canonical functions: BitwiseNot, Millisecond
Fixed bug with updating entities in concurrency mode

4.85.33 20-Aug-08

Supported .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
Supported Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

4.80.32 13-Aug-08

Supported dbForge Fusion for MySQL (formerly known as MyDeveloper Tools)

Entity Framework support

Supported inserting, updating, and deleting entities with stored procedures
Supported stored procedures that use synonym types NUMERIC, REAL, NCHAR, BOOL
Supported user-defined SQL queries as functions in SSDL
MySQL types ENUM and SET are now mapped to System.String
MySQL type TIME is now mapped to System.TimeSpan
Fixed bug with converting unsigned TINYINT in primary keys

4.70.31 18-Jul-08

Fixed bug with connection strings from app.config and Server Explorer
Fixed bug with DataSet Wizard in Visual Studio 2008
Added stored procedure parameters to Server Explorer
Unified provider name in Visual Studio 2008 (Devart.Data.MySql instead of Devart.Data.MySql.Entity)
MySQL Unsigned MediumInt type is now mapped to CLR Int32

Entity Framework support

Supported StoreGeneratedPattern attribute with values Identity and Computed
Supported System.Guid type (manual mapping required)
Supported mapping of signed TinyINT to System.SByte
Changed default type mapping in EDM Wizard for unsigned types
Fixed bug with simultaneous usage of Skip() and Take() methods
Fixed type mapping in EntityKey.EntityKeyValues
Fixed definitions of some provider-specific functions in Entity SQL

4.70.30 25-Jun-08

Connection strings from web.config are now available in Visual Studio 2008 design time
Improved MySqlDataSource design time capabilities
Added MySqlDump constructor with MySqlConnection parameter
Fixed bug with MySqlCommand.ExecutePageReader()
Fixed bug with Decimal type data when it has zerofill attribute set
Fixed bug with negative Time data type representation in MySqlDataReader.GetTimeSpan()

4.70.29 04-Jun-08

Fixed bug with dotConnect for MySQL missing in the EDM wizard
Fixed bug with inserting a row in DbDataTable when a filter is enabled

4.70.28 29-May-08

Supported .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta
Supported Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta
Improved support for ADO.NET Entity Framework

4.50.27 18-Apr-08

Added support for IComparable interface in MySqlBlob and MySqlText
Expanded list of object properties in Server Explorer
Fixed bug with Server Explorer drag and drop in Visual Studio 2008
Fixed bug with generating one-to-one relationships in DataSet Wizard

4.50.26 19-Mar-08

Fixed bug with licensing in Delphi for .NET and RAD Studio 2007

4.50.25 26-Feb-08

Added DB server-based data paging for ASP.NET applications
MySqlDataSource design time improvements
ASP.NET demo pack added
DotNetNuke 4.7 support added
Added support for CLIENT_INTERACTIVE connection option
MySqlSelectStatement.TryParse method added
DataLink.DataSource property can refer to another DataLink component
MySqlConnection.Ping() now checks for open connection
Fixed bug with executing Entity Framework queries
Fixed bug with DbDataTable and some visual controls
Fixed bug with DbDataTable.FillPage method
Fixed bug with fetching server errors containing Unicode text
Fixed bug with fetching time with fraction part
Fixed bug with MySqlCommand.ExecutePageReader

4.30.24 20-Dec-07

Visual Studio 2008 supported
Entity Framework Beta 3 supported
Added Licensing Information dialog

4.25.23 12-Dec-07

Fixed bug with DataSet Wizard when editing standard DataSets
Fixed bug with generation of BIT fields dump by MySqlDump
Fixed bug with compiling web applications in CodeGear RAD Studio 2007

4.25.22 19-Nov-07

Fixed bug with filling DataSet asynchronously
Fixed bug with hidden columns in DataSet Wizard
Fixed bug with DataSet generator
Fixed bug with .NET Entity Framework support
Fixed bug with licensing in multithreaded applications
Fixed bug with MySqlCommandBuilder generating empty INSERT statements
Fixed bug with MySqlDataReader.EndOfData property
Fixed bug with ecimal separator in MySqlDecimal
Improved behavior of MySqlDump.Backup method
Fixed bug with MySqlException serialization

4.25.21 05-Nov-07

Fixed bug with schema generator for .NET Entity Framework
Fixed bug with case sensitive names in DbDataTable.ParentRelation

4.25.20 25-Oct-07

.NET Entity Framework Beta 2 supported
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 supported
Added Visual Basic versions to CRM, WinForms, and Web samples
'Arguments' metadata collection enhanced to support return values of stored functions.
Bug with editing filtered and sorted DbDataTable fixed
Bug with design time editors of DbDataTable.ParentRelation fixed
Bug with editing relation resultset with DataLink fixed
Bug with building Refresh SQL when TableMappings are used fixed
Bug with editing MySqlConnection in design time fixed
Bug with fetching unsigned BIGINT fields fixed
Bug with MySqlConnection.InfoMessage event detaching fixed
Bug with MySqlDecimal autoincrement columns in MySqlDataTable fixed
Bug with handling errors in MySqlDataReader.Close fixed

4.20.19 19-Sep-07

Bug with initializing Embedded server fixed
Bug with refreshing fields in MySqlCommandBuilder fixed
Bug with Enterprise Library absence fixed
Bug with Visual Studio 2005 integration fixed
Bug with code generation for DbDataTable.UpdateCommand property fixed
Bug with DataSet Wizard fixed
Bug with InterForm application in design time fixed
Bug with internal class finalizer fixed
Bug with MySqlDataReader.IsDBNull() when connecting to Embedded server fixed
Bug with loading Visual Studio package in Mobile edition fixed

4.20.18 03-Sep-07

Bug with loading Visual Studio package fixed

4.20.17 30-Aug-07

MySQLDirect .NET renamed to MyDirect .NET
MySQL Developer Tools renamed to MyDeveloper Tools
Supported Visual Studio codename Orcas Beta 1
Supported .NET Entity Framework
Added support for x64 architecture
Enhanced command builder with generation of row refresh statements
Added detailed warning information to MySqlInfoMessageEventArgs class
Added DbCommand.GetRecordCount() method to determine rows count of a request
Added INullable interface for provider specific types
Supported data binding for provider-specific types
Supported client side validation for huge MySqlDecimal values
Network communication optimized for better performance
Added capability to store connection strings in application settings
Improved integration with MySQL Developer Tools
Extended drag'n'drop capabilities in DataSet Manager
Add-in menu moved to Visual Studio package
Demo projects reorganized
Added CRM (Customer Relationship Management) demo project
Added Ping demo project for Mobile Edition

4.00.10 30-May-07

Bug with Embedded Server fixed
Bug with executing stored procedures fixed
Bug with DbDataSet.ReadXml() fixed
Bug with closing IDbDataReader in DbDataTable fixed
Bug with MySqlSelectStatement fixed

4.00.9 13-Apr-07

Application development enhancement

Added DataSet Manager to control dataset instances in the project
Added DataSet Editor for convenient datasets manipulation
New MySqlDataSet class to use with MySqlDataTable
New component DataLink added for flexible data binding
New capabilities added to MySqlDataTable class
Added capability for cross-form components cooperation
Design time visualization extended
Supported addin, DataSet Wizard, and MySQL Developer Tools integration with Borland Developer Studio

.NET 2 features

Added MySqlDependency class to support Database Change Notification
Added MySqlDataSourceEnumerator class to support Server Enumeration feature
Added support for Batch Update in MySqlDataAdapter
Added support for returning provider-specific types in MySqlDataReader and MySqlDataAdapter

Other features

SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Solutions supported
Added data provider and set of data access modules for DotNetNuke
Added MySqlSelectStatement class for building SELECT statements
Added MySqlDecimal class to represent MySQL DECIMAL type
Added MySqlBinaryString class to represent BINARY and VARBINARY type
Added list of hosts in connection form and connection properties
Added MySqlLoader.LoadTable() method
Base level classes moved to the new assembly Devart.Data.dll
New demo projects added
Added DbLoader class that serves to load external data into database
Added MySQLDirect .NET information to Visual Studio 2005 splash screen and About box
Bug with 3DES cipher fixed for SSH protocol
Bug with server explorer fixed
Bug with insert id fixed
Problem with C++/CLI samples fixed
Bug with inserting big BLOBs fixed
Bug in MySqlConnection.GetSchema() fixed
Bug with parsing SELECT statements fixed
Bug with retrieving foreign keys metadata fixed
Bug with MySqlDataReader.HasRows fixed
Bug with generating update commands for views with aliases fixed

MySQL Developer Tools 2.00 improvements

Added stored procedure and SQL script debuggers.
Added a project management framework for bookmarking related scripts and organizing database developments.
Enhanced SQL Editor with context-sensitive code completion, code navigation, incremental search, and more.
Enhanced working with data, including possibility to print data directly from data editor.
Added search in object data and stored procedure source code.
Added an extensive collection of SQL and stored routine code templates.
Added fully customizable keyboard mapping schemes.
Completely redesigned Security Manager to control user accounts.
Added a Session Manager for controlling and analyzing user sessions.
Added a Service Manager to find and control MySQL services.

3.55.22 28-Mar-07

Bug with connecting to non-existing MySQL Server in Mobile edition fixed
Bug with DbMembershipProvider.GetUser() fixed
Bug with BDS integration fixed
Performance of parameters improved

3.55.21 05-Mar-07

Bug with Analysis Services projects fixed
Bug with MySqlDataReader.RecordsAffected fixed
Bug with fetching BLOB data in client mode fixed

3.55.20 01-Feb-07

Bug with licensing fixed

3.55.19 25-Jan-07

Bug MySqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery() fixed
Bug with installation on Vista x64 edition fixed
Bug with SecurityPermission fixed
Bug with retrieving password in MySqlMembershipProvider fixed

3.55.18 22-Dec-06

Bug with Visual Studio 2005 integration fixed

3.55.17 14-Dec-06

Bug with installation fixed

3.55.16 12-Dec-06

Windows Vista support added

3.50.15 29-Nov-06

Bug with returning column scale in MySqlConnection.GetSchema("Columns") fixed
Bug with fetching empty data in client mode fixed

3.50.14 25-Oct-06

Bug with MySqlConnection.GetSchema("Arguments") fixed
Bug with Client mode in restricted scenarios fixed
Bug with DataSet Wizard in web projects fixed
Bug with web providers fixed
Bug with MySqlDataAdapter.UpdateBachSize fixed
Bug with data provider registration on 64 bit system fixed
Bug with FileIOPermission requirement fixed

3.50.13 19-Sep-06

Integration with Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition supported
Licensing for applications that call MySQLDirect .NET through DbProviderFactory added. This allows to use MySQLDirect .NET in SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Solutions
Bug with detecting fatal errors when using compression fixed
Bug with removing users from roles using MySqlRoleProvider fixed
Bug with MySqlParameter designer and serialization fixed
Bug with processing error messages in result set fixed
Bug in DataSet Wizard with generating INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE commands when identifiers require quoting fixed

3.50.12 16-Aug-06

Bug with In/InOut Decimal type parameters in prepared commands fixed for specific regional settings
Bug with designing Table Adapter when a stored procedure is used as data source fixed
Bug with creating Table Adapters with MySQLDirect .NET DataSet Wizard fixed
Bug with SQL expressions in SELECT statements fixed
Bug with requiresQuestionAndAnswer parameter in Membership provider fixed
Bug with table names in Membership provider and Role provider fixed
Bug with processing MySQL errors on MySqlDataReader closing fixed
Bug with processing errors on MySqlConnection closing fixed

3.50.11 03-Jun-06

Bug with editing table contents in Server Explorer fixed
Bug with MySqlCommand.InsertId fixed
Problem with C++/CLI samples fixed
Bug with inserting big BLOBs fixed

3.50.10 17-Apr-06

Implemented advanced integration with Visual Studio 2005, including Server Explorer, Data Source wizard, TableAdapter configuration, Query Builder and configuring web component SqlDataSource
ASP.NET 2.0 providers added: Membership Provider, Profile Provider, Role Provider, Session State Provider
DataSet Wizard added
Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block support added
Mono support added
OUT and INOUT parameters in stored procedures supported
Borland Delphi 2006 support added
Added support for stored procedures in FetchAll=true and Prepared modes
Added streaming support for MySqlScript
MySQL Developer Tools installation separated from MySQLDirect .NET installation
Added list of Frequently Asked Questions
Capability to call MySQLDirect .NET runtime assemblies by partially trusted code added
Licensing enhanced for applications that use DbProviderFactory
Migration wizard design enhanced
Bug with finalizers fixed
Bug with binary data and national encoding in MySqlDump fixed
Bug with BINARY and VARBINARY types in Unicode=true mode fixed
Bug with LONGBLOB and MEDIUMBLOB columns fetch fixed
Bug with MySqlConnection.SslOptions and MySqlConnection.SshOptions properties fixed
Bug with MySqlConnection.Kill() method fixed
Bug with setting empty parameter in connection string fixed
Bug with fetching Unicode metadata fixed
Bug with MySqlCommand.ExecuteReader method when behavior is SchemaOnly fixed
Bug with ParameterCheck mode in describing stored procedures fixed
Bug with tables names quoting in MySqlLoader and MySqlDump fixed
Bug with installing both Mobile and Standard versions fixed
Bug with unicode names of database objects fixed
Bug with MySqlCommand.EndExecuteReader fixed
Bug with parameters regenerating in MySqlDataAdapter editor fixed
Bug with DataSet generator fixed
Bug with licensing SQL Server Business Intelligence Projects fixed
Bug with MySqlMonitor messages in Visual Studio Output window fixed
Bug with executing stored procedures with CommandBehavior.SchemaOnly fixed

3.20.9 31-Jan-06

Bug with licensing fixed
Bug with SSH and SSL properties fixed
Setup improved

3.20.8 25-Jan-06

AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers attribute added to Devart.Data.MySql assembly
Stored procedures support improved
MySqlDataAdapter's command generator improved
Bug with connection pooling fixed
Provider invariant name changed

3.20.7 20-Dec-05

Designer for MySqlDump.Database property added
Fixed bug with licensing applications where name of assembly file differs from project's name
Bug with licensing on .NET Compact Framework applications fixed
Bug with stored procedures fixed

3.20.6 16-Dec-05

Bug with removing MySQL Developer Tools toolbar fixed
Bug with licensing on ASP.NET applications fixed

3.20.5 13-Dec-05

Supported .NET Framework 2.0 release version
Supported Visual Studio 2005 release version
Compact .NET Framework 2.0 supported
Bug with non-default port setting in SSH connection fixed

MySQL Developer Tools improvements

User and privileges management support
Database export/import to/from SQL script
Trigger support
Script support
Stop execution feature
Execution of the selected SQL fragment feature
Data Export feature
Dynamic data viewing of the tables and views in DbExplorer
Paginal data access mode
LOB viewer/editor
Database object search
Secure SSL and SSH connections support
Query plan tool
Duplicate object feature
DDL generation wizard
Embedded server support
Data grid colors customizing

3.05.4 08-Nov-05

Bug in connection pooling fixed
Bug with fetch of unsigned float and double fixed
Bug with fetch of high precision decimal fixed
Bug with Embedded Server fixed
Bug with sql command parser fixed
Fixed bug with execution of prepared commands that represent stored procedures
Bug with MySqlCommand.Transaction fixed
Bug with MySqlCommandBuilder.KeyFields design-time editor in Mobile version fixed

3.05.3 18-Oct-05

DumpMode enumeration added
Bug with decimal fields fetch fixed
Bug with MySqlCommand designer in MySQLDirect .NET Mobile fixed
Bug with minimal installation fixed
Bug with prepared statements fixed
Bug with retrieving columns metadata fixed
Bug with MySqlConnectionStringBuilder in MySQLDirect .NET for .NET Framework 2 fixed
Bug with MySqlConnection.Kill() method fixed
Bug with dumping binary data with MySqlDump fixed
Bug with CommandBuilder parameters generation fixed
Bug with MySqlDataReader.GetBoolean method fixed
Bug with counting lines on MySqlScript execution fixed
Bug with MySqlCommandBuilder.KeyFields editor in MySQLDirect .NET Mobile fixed

MySQL Developer Tools improvements

Edit PrimaryKey from column editor bug fixed
Duplicate entry bug on tables having autoincrement fields fixed

3.00.2 19-Aug-05

Bug with policy files fixed
Bug with fetch on Embedded Server fixed
Bug with Embedded Server initialization and finalization fixed
Bug with decimal fields in MySQL 5.0.3 and higher fixed
MySqlCommandBuilder behavior now corresponds to command builder in .NET Framework 2

MySQL Developer Tools improvements

Bug with drag'n'drop from DbExplorer to Web Forms Designer fixed
Bug with generating text of the stored function parameter list fixed

3.00.1 29-Jun-05

Bug with compression for MySQL 3.23 fixed
Some design-time bugs fixed

3.00.0 11-Jun-05

SSL connection to MySQL server support added
SSH client forwarding protocol support added
Support for compression protocol added
Returning result sets from stored procedures supported
View editing supported
MySqlConnection.Kill method added
Metadata support extended
MySQL Embedded server 4.1 support added
MySqlCommandBuilder.UpdatingFields property added
MySqlLoader now inherits from DbLoader
Performance increased

2.80.7 27-May-05

Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 added
Publisher policy file added for versions compatibility
Tested with MySQL 5.0.4 Beta

2.80.6 25-Apr-05

Bug with "Unspecified error" message on Visual Studio .NET startup fixed
Several bugs with Developer Tools integration fixed

2.80.5 15-Apr-05

Support for quoting and unquoting names that consist of numbers only or contain quotes added
Detection of MySqlConnection closing added to MySqlDataReader
Bug with several same-named columns in MySqlDataReader fixed
DbTools renamed to MySQL Developer Tools

MySQL Developer Tools improvements (Professional edition only)

View support added
Reference key support added
Data editor improved
Charset and collation support added for database, table and column
"Show all databases" option added to connection editor
Table editor re-designed and extended
Index editor extended with additional options
"Primary key" option added to column editor
Minor changes in stored procedure and UDF editors
Query timing added to output
Bug with "Parameter is not correct" message on Visual Studio .NET startup fixed

2.70.4 04-Mar-05

Bug with stored procedure describing fixed
Bug with "Net packets out of order" fixed
Bug with uppercase identifiers in MySqlCommandBuilder fixed

2.70.3 24-Jan-05

Bug with schema table fixed for non-unique indexes
Bug with password loss in DbTools fixed
Bug with interop with MySQL Embedded server fixed
Bug with retrieving stored function result fixed
Bug with executing 'CREATE' statements fixed

2.70.2 06-Jan-05

Unicode support enabled for MySQL 4.0
MySqlDump component improved
MySqlLoader component improved
Bug with retrieving last InsertId of type Int64 fixed

2.70.1 23-Nov-04

Dump sample added
New C++ samples added
Bug with MySqlTransaction.Rollback fixed
Bug with escaping unicode characters that reveals SQL injection vulnerability fixed
Documentation enriched
Tested with MySQL 4.1.7

2.70.0 05-Nov-04

Support for .NET Framework 2.0 added with ADO.NET 2 features
Support for metadata schemas added
The Base-Class-Based provider model used
Connection pooling enhancements functionality added, that allows you to programmatically "drain" the connection pool
New MySqlConnectionStringBuilder component to build connection strings to represent data sources
SQL parameters support added to DbTools
Stored procedures support for MySQL 5.0.1-alpha added to DbTools
Syntax highlight and member list features for SQL editors in component designers
DbTools help is now integrated into Visual Studio IDE
Context help support added to DbTools

2.50.3 25-Oct-04

Bug with unicode support fixed
Tested with MySQL 4.1.5

2.50.2 27-Sep-04

Documentation updated
Fixed issue with MySqlDataAdapter being filled using empty query
Bug with MySqlBlob fixed
Bug with MySqlDataReader finalization fixed
Bug with MySqlDump component fixed

2.50.1 27-Aug-04

Bug with MySqlScript component fixed
Bug with unicode support for MySQL 4.1.3 fixed
Support for serialization MySqlException added

2.50.0 13-Aug-04

Design-time tools are completely revised, extended, rewritten in managed code and called DbTools
Query Builder tool rewritten and improved
SQL editor tool added
Support for stored procedures added to DbExplorer
Ability to drag connections, tables and stored procedures from DbExplorer to Form Designer added
Component designers more tightly integrated with DbTools
New component MySqlDataTable added
New methods for asynchronous working added
Support for paginal access to query result added
Performance increased
Tested with MySQL 4.1.3
Support for connect to MySQL 4.1.3 with OLD passwords added
Bug huge BLOB values fixed
Bug with FetchAll mode fixed
Bug with StoredProc support fixed
Bug with ExecuteNonQuery result in FetchAll mode fixed

2.40.4 09-Jun-04

Bug with command finalization fixed
Bug with fetching BLOB fields fixed
Bug with fetching data from prepared statements fixed
Bug with multiple query execution in prepared statements fixed

2.40.3 22-Jul-04

Bug with fetching decimal numbers fixed
Bug with Socket finalization fixed

2.40.2 17-Jul-04

Bug with MySqlDataAdapter.Fill fixed
Bug with fetching large numbers with decimal separator fixed
Bug with DbScript interface fixed

2.40.1 09-Jul-04

Bug with connection pooling fixed
Bug with component deserialization for Compact Framework fixed

2.40.0 07-Jul-04

Support for Compact Framework added
Support for multiple ExecuteReader added
MySqlDataReader.HasRows property added
Retrieve InsertId to dataset autoincrement columns added
Support for connection timeout added
Support for command timeout added

2.30.1 02-Jul-04

Bug with MySqlDataReader.ExecuteNonQuery result fixed

2.30.0 10-May-04

MySQL 5.0 support added
Stored procedures support added for MySQL 5.0
Prepared statements supported for MySQL 4.1.1 and MySQL 5.0
New component MySqlLoader added
New component MySqlDump added
Method MySqlConnection.Ping added to validate open connection
New component MySqlDataSourceControl for extended WebMatrix support added
C++ sample added

2.00.6 19-Apr-04

Bug with parsing parameters fixed

2.00.5 13-Apr-04

Bug with connection pooling fixed

2.00.4 25-Feb-04

Bug with MySqlScript fixed
Bug with multiple query execution fixed

2.00.3 06-Feb-04

Bug with fetching empty string fixed
Support for monitoring component name added

2.00.2 02-Feb-04

Bug with MySqlCommand.InsertId fixed
Bug with multiple query execution fixed

2.00.1 30-Jan-04

Bug with connect to MySQL 4.1.1 with new authentication method fixed
Bug with Borland Delphi 8 fixed
DbTools add-in installation bug appearing without installed .NET Framework 1.0 fixed

2.00.0 27-Jan-04

Access to MySQL server without client library
MySQL 4.1.1 alpha support added
DbExplorer tool to explore MySQL database schema
Support for Named pipe and Shared memory protocol added
Support for transferred data compression added
Unicode support added for MySQL 4.1.1
Native classes MySqlBlob and MySqlText to represent MySQL blob types
New ConnectionString editor implemented
Component designers enhanced
Support for Microsoft ASP.NET Web Matrix added
Support for Borland Delphi 8 added

1.80.7 22-Dec-03

Bug with MySqlDataReader.GetBytes fixed
Serializable attribute added for MySqlException

1.80.6 20-Nov-03

Bug with CommandBuilder interface fixed
Bug with loading client library fixed

1.80.5 11-Nov-03

Bug with GetSchemaTable fixed

1.80.4 06-Nov-03

Help updated
Bug with parsing hexadecimal numbers fixed

1.80.3 17-Oct-03

Bug with MySqlConnection.Close fixed

1.80.2 08-Oct-03

Bug with TimeStamp fields fixed
Bug with ExecuteNonQuery result fixed

1.80.1 07-Oct-03

Bug with ASP.NET fixed
Bug with MySqlCommandBuilder fixed
Bug with TINYINT datatype fixed
Bug with disposing MySqlDataReader fixed

1.80.0 23-Sep-03

Support for connection pooling added
Support for multiple query execution added
Ability to store data in DataReader object added
Migration wizard from ODBC and OLE DB .NET Data Providers
Support for Borland C#Builder added
Samples updated
Bug with generate dataset fixed
Bug with MySqlDataAdapter designer fixed (3342)
Bug with MySqlCommand designer fixed (3346)
Bug with retrieving alias name in SchemaTable fixed

1.60.3 22-Jun-03

Bug with parameters designer fixed
Bug with MySQLParameter.DbType fixed
Bug with MySQLCommand.Transaction fixed

1.60.3 22-Jun-03

Bug with MySqlScript fixed
Bug with CommandBehavior.SingleRow fixed

1.60.2 14-Jun-03

Installation bug fixed. XML documentaion was not installing properly.
Typed dataset generation bug under VB project fixed (3087)

1.60.1 26-Jul-03

Property editors for MySqlCommandBuilder.KeyFields and MySqlCommandBuilder.UpdatingTable added.
Bug with MySqlParameterConverter and MySqlParameterValueConverter fixed

1.60 20-Jul-03

Visual Studio .NET 2003 support added
MySQL 4.1 support added
MySQL embedded server support added
ODBC parameter format '?' supported
MySqlCommand.InsertId property added
MySQLDirect .NET help integrated into Visual Studio .NET
Component properties and events descriptions for "Properties Window" added
XML documentation for code completion added
DBMonitor support moved to Devart.Data.MySql from Devart.DBMonitor assembly
Bug with NULL parameter values in MySqlMonitor fixed

1.52 08-Apr-03

MySQL 4.0.12 release support
Bug with unsigned integers fixed (2152)
Bug in MySqlDataReader.GetChars method fixed (1429)
Bug with empty DataBase fixed (2817)
Table demo modified

1.51 03-Mar-03

Visual Basic .NET samples added
Bugs with binary and text parameters using multibytes codepages fixed (2757)
Bug with TIMESTAMP fields fixed (2765)
Bug with CommandBehavior.CloseConnection fixed (2822)

1.50 14-Feb-03

MySQL 4.0 gamma support
New component MySqlScript added. Serves to execute series of SQL statements separated by special symbols.
New component MySqlMonitor added. Allows to monitor dynamic SQL execution in applications that use MySQLDirect .NET. Extended monitoring capabilities are provided with DBMonitor application.
Designer form for MySqlDataAdapter component setup added
MySqlCommand component designer functionality extended
Typed dataset generation mechanism enabled for MySqlDataAdapter
Automatic component registration (in toolbox) mechanism added
MySqlBuilder tool for visual query building

1.21.6 11-Oct-02

MySqlCommand.ParameterCheck now is false by default
MySqlDataReader.FieldCount bug fixed
Bug with unassigned parameter value fixed
Bug with '_' in parameter name fixed
Parsing parameters bug fixed (2052)
Fix bug in processing value of string parameters

1.20.5 06-Sep-02

Error in update row with unchanged values fixed (1793)

1.20.4 22-Aug-02

Support using MySqlDataReader from System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataGrid
Testing with MySQL 4.0.2 alpha
Number conversion fixed

1.20.3 06-Aug-02

Support MySqlDataReader.GetBytes and MySqlDataReader.GetChars
Pictures demo project
MySqlDataReader.GetOrdinal bug fixed

1.20.2 12-Jun-02

Change files version

1.20.1 08-Jun-02

Special characters in connect string bug fixed

1.20 05-Jun-02

Transaction support
Support TIMESTAMP datatype
Support TEXT and BLOB datatypes
ASP .NET demo project
MasterDetail demo project
Transaction demo project
Mapping TIME to TimeSpan type
Scale and precision bug fixed
Command.Dispose bug fixed

1.02 25-Jul-02

MySqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery with SELECT bug fixed (1260)
Special character bug fixed

1.01 20-Jul-02

Date value in parameters bug fixed

1.00 27-May-02

First release of MySQLDirect .NET data provider