Entity Developer Editions

Entity Developer is available in the following editions: Professional, for NHibernate, for Entity Framework, for LINQ to SQL, and Express.

Entity Developer Professional Edition allows designing models for NHibernate, Entity Framework, and LINQ to SQL.

Entity Developer for NHibernate supports any third-party ADO.NET data providers to design NHibernate models. Entity Developer for LINQ to SQL and Entity Developer for Entity Framework use SqlClient to connect to Microsoft SQL Server and allow designing models for correspong ORM solutions.

The Express Edition is a free limited version of Entity Developer Professional Edition. The Express Edition does not allow customization of code templates and is limited to 10 entities in the project.

Entity Developer for dotConnect is bundled with dotConnect for Oracle, dotConnect for MySQL, dotConnect for PostgreSQL, and dotConnect for SQLite and supports corresponding database.

Feature Professional NHibernate Entity Framework LINQ to SQL Express
 
NHibernate support Yes Yes No No Yes
Entity Framework support Yes No Yes No Yes
LINQ to SQL support Yes No No Yes Yes
Visual schema modelling Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Reverse engineering Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Predefined templates Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Custom templates Yes Yes Yes Yes No
SQL Server support Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Third-party ADO.NET provider support* Yes Yes No No Yes
Unlimited number of entities in model Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Single License Price $299.95 $199.95 $199.95 $99.95 Free

* Third-party ADO.NET providers are supported only for NHibernate ORM.

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