dotConnect for PostgreSQL Features

General usability

  • Direct access to server data
  • Real RAD for database applications
  • Fully compliant with ADO.NET
  • 100% managed code
  • Highly usable design time support
  • Easy to deploy

Network and connectivity

  • Doesn't require PostgreSQL client library and uses PostgreSQL protocol directly
  • Both connected and disconnected data access models
  • Unicode connections
  • SSL connection to PostgreSQL server

Compatibility

  • Full support of the latest versions of PostgreSQL
  • Full support for x64 architecture
  • .NET Compact Framework support
  • Mono Framework support
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 support
  • CodeGear Delphi 2007 support
  • Embarcadero Delphi Prism support
  • SQL Server 2005 and 2008 Business Intelligence Solutions support

PostgreSQL technology support

  • All PostgreSQL data types support, including Composite types
  • Stored procedures support
  • Returning result sets from stored procedures
  • PgSqlDump component to store a database or its parts as a script and then restore it
  • PgSqlLoader component for fast loading data
  • PgSqlAlerter component to manage PostgreSQL notifications with LISTEN and NOTIFY commands
  • Fill DataSet with multiple query
  • Large objects support
  • PostgreSQL ARRAY data type support with the PgSqlArray class

Performance

  • High overall performance
  • Intelligent fetch block size control
  • Advanced connection pooling
  • High performance batch processing

ADO.NET technology support

  • Full support for ADO.NET Entity Framework v1 and v4
  • Server enumeration
  • Batch update support
  • Extended metadata information retrieval
  • Advanced CommandBuilder component with automatic refresh SQL
  • Enhanced pooling control through connection string
  • Connection string builder
  • Provider factory for generating key data access classes
  • Asynchronous command execution
  • Provider-specific types support
  • Password change API
  • Database Change Notification Support
  • Possibility to retrieve OID values

ADO.NET Entity Framework

  • Conceptual approach to enterprise development
  • High performance
  • Wide support for LINQ to Entities
  • Wide support for EntitySQL
  • Full CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) support
  • Wide support for server data types
  • Change tracking support
  • Object data caching
  • Inheritance mapping support (TPH, TPT, and TPCT models)
  • Capability to use stored procedures when manipulating data
  • Stored procedure import support
  • Ability to build database-independent applications
  • Visual Studio EDM Wizard support
  • Reverse engineering of database objects to entity model
  • Visual model creation and code generation with Entity Developer
    • Update Model From Database functionality for Entity Developer[New]
    • Update To Database with Mapping Synchronization functionality for Entity Developer[New]
  • Illustrated tutorial to get started with Entity Framework in 5 minutes

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to PostgreSQL)

  • Easy to use
  • High performance
  • Interchangeable with Microsoft LINQ to SQL
  • Plain CLR classes used (no need to use a common base class)
  • Full CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) support
  • Ability to execute DML statements in batches on SubmitChanges [New]
  • Complex type support
  • PLINQ support (connection manager redesigned for thread safety) [New]
  • Support for different configurable algorithms for primary key generation
  • Inheritance mapping support (Table Per Hierarchy and Table Per Type) [New]
  • Support of Visual Studio Debugger Visualizer for the DataQuery objects [New]
  • ASP.NET Dynamic Data support with ASP.NET Dynamic Data project templates [New]
  • Automatic configurable compiled query caching
  • Change tracking support
  • Object data caching
  • Data binding support
  • Wide support for LINQ capabilities
  • Wide support for server data types
  • Load on demand (lazy load)
  • Database transactions support
  • Server-independent interface
  • Visual model creation and code generation with Entity Developer
    • Update Model From Database functionality for Entity Developer[New]
    • Update To Database with Mapping Synchronization functionality for Entity Developer[New]
  • Illustrated tutorial to get started with LinqConnect in 5 minutes

Extended data access technologies and functionality

  • Powerful PgSqlDataTable component for manipulating individual tables or query result
  • NonBlocking mode allows fetching data asynchronously in the background
  • On-demand data fetch for data-bound controls
  • Paginal access to query result
  • Server side master-detail relation based on queries
  • Ability to refresh individual records in PgSqlDataTable component
  • Support for Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block (DAAB)
  • Object-oriented building of SELECT statements
  • Extended warning and error information retrieval
  • Extended interface for processing execution exceptions
  • PgSqlDataAdapter.Fill method with sequential fetch support
  • Ability to defer fetching of some columns in a resultset
  • Named parameters support

WinForms-specific features

  • Flexible data binding with DataLink component
  • InterForm technology for cross-form components cooperation
  • Global position synchronization within a data source

ASP.NET-specific features

  • ASP.NET data providers: Membership, Role, Session State, Profile, Personalization, Site Map, Web Event
  • PgSqlDataSource web component
  • PgSqlCacheDependency component to control Cache item dependencies in ASP.NET applications

Script execution

  • Advanced script execution features with PgSqlScript component
  • Support for executing individual statements in scripts
  • Support for executing huge scripts stored in files with dynamic loading

SQL execution monitoring

  • Extended SQL tracing capabilities with PgSqlMonitor component
  • Support for dbMonitor utility for advanced tracing analysis and control
  • Per-component SQL tracing
  • Optional log output to IDE toolwindows

Design-time enhancements

Product clarity

  • Complete documentation sets integrated into Visual Studio and CodeGear Delphi
  • Integration with Visual Studio and MSDN help collections
  • Documentation available as a standalone chm file
  • A large amount of helpful demos in C#, VB, C++, and Delphi

Licensing and support

  • Included annual dotConnect for PostgreSQL Subscription with Priority Support
  • Licensed royalty-free per developer, per team, or per site