dotConnect Universal History

15-Mar-12 New features in dotConnect Universal 3.30

• Visual Studio 11 Beta is supported
• The handling of empty options in the connection string is improved

21-May-10 New features in dotConnect Universal 3.20

• Supported Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1
• Implemented integration with Visual Web Developer 2008 and 2010 Express editions
• DbTransactionBase class is added
• TransactionStateChanging and TransactionStateChanged events are added to the DbConnectionBase class
• The UniDbType.TimeStampTZ parameter type is implemented
• Added overloads for methods of DbDataReaderBase class with column name parameter
• Supported password salt in ASP.NET membership provider
• Improved Upgrade wizard
• Implemented capability of extending base functionality of ASP.NET providers
• Added support for Enterprise Library 5
• Implemented host option for current process in dbMonitor
• Added possibility for tracing the distributed transactions in DBMonitor
• 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
• The support of events which occur when connections are taken and returned to pool for processing UniMonitor.TraceEvent is added
• The "Use schema name" check box is added to DataSet Wizard
• Changed behaviour: setting the DbDataTable.Connection property sets the InsertCommand.Connection, UpdateCommand.Connection, and DeleteCommand.Connection properties
• Changed behaviour: when clearing the pool, the number of connections specified in 'Min Pool Size' is never removed
• Changed the primary key of the aspnet_sessions table for ASP.NET Web providers (the ApplicationName column added)
• Changed behaviour: Devart.Data.Oracle.OracleException is public now

15-Apr-10 New features in dotConnect Universal 3.10

• Supported Visual Studio 2010
• Install Wizard improved (ability to automatically uninstall previous version added)
• Added possibility to avoid connecting to dbMonitor.exe when using DbMonitor ancestors

20-Nov-09 New features in dotConnect Universal 3.00

• New dotConnect providers supported
• New bundled providers with advanced connectivity options, such as http tunneling, ssl and so on added
• SQLite provider added
• Support for Visual Studio 2008 added
• Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta added
• Server Explorer integration enhanced
• Mobile versions no longer need dotConnect providers installed

05-Dec-07 New features in UniDirect .NET 2.10

• New assemblies for bundled providers

12-Dec-06 New features in UniDirect .NET 2.05

• Windows Vista support added

22-Nov-06 New features in UniDirect .NET 2.00

• .NET Framework 2.0 support added
• Visual Studio 2005 support added
• Added Professional edition with bundled data providers for Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Support for .NET Compact Framework added
• ASP.NET 2.0 providers added: Membership Provider, Profile Provider, Role Provider, Session State Provider
• Implemented advanced integration with Visual Studio 2005, including Server Explorer, Data Source wizard, TableAdapter configuration
• Dataset Wizard added
• Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block support added
• The Base-Class-Based provider model used

Provider-specific types infrastructure

• UniDbType enumeration added
• UniBlob class added
• UniCursor class added
• UniDecimal class added

UniSQL (server-independent query language) features

• Conditional macro expressions as UniMacros class
• Universal support for literals and identifiers
• Universal quoting
• Conditional inclusion of SQL clauses
• Function mapping
• Unified OUTER JOIN syntax

Other features

• Borland Delphi 2006 support added
• Connection pooling functionality added
• Metadata schemas support added
• Bug with invalid parameter index fixed

18-May-05 New features in UniDirect .NET 1.06

• Support for Borland Delphi 2005 added
• Publisher policy file added for versions compatibility

02-Jul-04 New features in UniDirect .NET 1.03

• Documentation updated

28-Apr-04 New features in UniDirect .NET 1.01

• Support for MS Access added

06-Feb-04 First release of UniDirect .NET