dotConnect for SQLite Features

General usability

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

Compatibility

  • Full support of the latest versions of SQLite
  • Full support for x64 architecture
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 Release Candidate support
  • CodeGear RAD Studio 2007 support
  • Embarcadero Delphi Prism support
  • SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Solutions support

SQLite technology support

  • All SQLite data types support
  • User-defined functions support [New]
  • SQLiteDump component to store a database or its parts as a script and then restore it
  • The CEROD and SEE extensions support [New]
  • Ability to enable extensions with the EnableLoadExtension connection string parameters [New]

Performance

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

ADO.NET technology support

  • Support for ADO.NET Entity Framework [New]
  • Batch update support
  • Extended metadata information retrieval
  • Enhanced pooling control through connection string
  • Connection string builder
  • Provider factory for generating key data access classes
  • Asynchronous command execution
  • Provider-specific types support

ADO.NET Entity Framework

  • Conceptual approach to enterprise development
  • High performance
  • Wide support for LINQ to Entities capabilities
  • 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 model creation and code generation with Entity Developer

LINQ to SQLite

  • 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
  • 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
  • Inheritance mapping support (table per hierarchy model)
  • Server-independent interface
  • Visual model creation and code generation with Entity Developer
  • Illustrated tutorial to get started with LINQ to SQLite in 5 minutes

Extended data access technologies and functionality

  • Powerful SQLiteDataTable 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
  • 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
  • SQLiteDataAdapter.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
  • SQLiteDataSource web component
  • SQLiteCacheDependency component to control Cache item dependencies in ASP.NET applications

Script execution

  • Advanced script execution features with SQLiteScript 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 SQLiteMonitor component
  • Support for dbMonitor utility for advanced tracing analysis and control
  • Per-component SQL tracing
  • Optional log output to IDE toolwindows

Design-time enhancements

  • Automatic component registration in toolbox
  • Advanced integration with Visual Studio 2005, 2008, and 2010 Release Candidate, including Server Explorer, Data Source wizard, TableAdapter configuration, Query Builder and configuring web component SQLiteDataSource
  • DataSet Wizard to create and edit typed SQLite-oriented datasets
  • DataSet Manager to list and bind datasets in the project
  • DataSet Editor to edit dataset contents
  • Advanced design-time component and property editors
  • IntelliSense descriptions for dotConnect for SQLite classes
  • Syntax highlighting in design-time editors
  • TableMappings editor
  • Convenient instant data preview and management in design time

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 SQLite Subscription with Priority Support
  • Licensed royalty-free per developer, per team, or per site