Key Features
- ADO.NET Entity Framework support
- LINQ to SQL support
- Customizable and intuitive user interface
- Reverse engineering from database
- Execution of LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities, and Entity SQL queries
- Well-thought predefined templates for class generation
- Flexible T4-like template language for custom templates
- Customizable naming rules for database objects
- Data viewing and editing
- State-of-the-art diagram with diagram overview and printing
- Undo/Redo support
- Two ways of work: in integration with Visual Studio or standalone
Entity Developer is a powerful modeling and code generation tool for LINQ to SQL and ADO.NET Entity Framework.
You can design an entity model from scratch or reverse-engineer an
existing database, in which case you will have the classes and the relations
with just several clicks. The model is used to generate C# or Visual Basic
code with flexible predefined code templates. You can also customize the
templates to fit all your needs.
Entity Developer designes entity models for:
- ADO.NET Entity Framework
- LINQ to SQL
Entity Developer supports:
- SQL Server in Entity Developer for SQL Server Standard and Express Editions.
- Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite in Entity Developer for dotConnect Edition.
Entity Developer for SQL Server uses standard Microsoft SqlClient,
LINQ to SQL, and Entity Framework, all of them bundled with .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.
Entity Developer for dotConnect uses Devart LINQ to SQL
and Entity Framework support
available with dotConnects for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. Please
visit the Editions page for more information on
available options.

Roadmap
- Update To Database and Generate DDL Script wizards
- Enum support
- Custom attributes for model elements
- More predefined templates for different use cases
- Database metadata in local storage
- User-customizable type mapping
Note: If you need another feature in Entity Developer, please let us know about it. Visit our forum at
UserVoice and vote for
suggested features or suggest your own one.
Documentation
Entity Developer includes complete documentation on its features. You can access it
from the application's Help menu item, or from the Start menu. You can also press F1
to get context-sensitive help.
Also take a look at Entity Framework Query Samples
article that contains tutorial on how to build the Entity
Framework Query Samples model with Entity Developer.