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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.

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Roadmap

  • Update From Database wizard
  • More predefined templates for diffrent use cases
  • Database generation wizard
  • Database metadata in local storage
  • User-customizable type mapping
  • Custom attributes for model elements

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.