LinqConnect 2.50 is released!

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LinqConnect 2.50 is released!

Post by Devart » Wed 18 May 2011 15:54

Dear users,

Devart is glad to announce the release of LinqConnect 2.50 - an enhanced LINQ to SQL compatible ORM solution with extended functionality, support for SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. The new version of LinqConnect features eager loading if the related entities collection is referenced in the select clause of the query and greatly enriched Entity Developer 3.50 with improved code generation.

Entity Developer Improvements

Now, it is possible to add more than one template to the model, register added templates within the model and store them either in the Entity Developer resources, or in the specified folder, or together with the model itself. The so-called "shared" templates can now be easily shared between different models.

Another new feature in the area of template use and management is the possibility to exclude templates from the process of code generation by setting their "enabled" property to "false". This greatly improves the flexibility of the code generation process.

Template code can be easily edited in the improved built-in T4 editor. Our T4 editor features extensive intellisense functionality, syntax highlighting, navigation to definitions and declarations of objects and members, present in the template file or included files, multilevel template inclusion and some others.

The range of templates available in Entity Developer is further extended with the POCO template with XML mapping.

Additionally, the Entity Developer application now features, alongside the FilePerClass option, the EntitiesOutput and ContextOutput functionality that allows redirecting code generation for entities and appropriate contexts to any folder or project.

Presently, Entity Developer makes it possible for developers to exclude classes from being overwritten at each generation; in multi-layered application development, this allows creating sets of sample classes that can later be modified as needed.

The use of extended properties defined directly in template code makes the process of code generation much more flexible. The developer can customize the set of properties of any element in the model by declaring extended properties both in template code and in model properties. For example, you can add the Generate property to every class and then exclude some classes from generated code by setting this property in the designer.

Starting with this version of Entity Developer, developers can select attributes from all available assemblies, set values of attribute parameters and assign attributes to classes, properties or contexts of their model. Assigned attributes and the values of their parameters will be present in generated code. For example, the System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotation attributes can be used for validation.

Lastly, Entity Developer now has runtime support for literals specified in the 'Default Value' entity field property for LinqConnect models.

If you need another feature in Entity Developer or LinqConnect, visit our forum at UserVoice and vote for suggested features or suggest your own one.

Here is the complete list of LinqConnect 2.50.23 features:
  • Implemented eager loading in case the related entities collection is referenced in the select clause of the query
  • The bug with incorrect operation order during SubmitChanges() calls is fixed
  • The bug with ArgumentExceptions thrown in background threads is fixed
  • The bug with using public properties when refreshing or materializing an entity is fixed
  • The bug with grouping a collection by a whole entity is fixed
Entity Developer
  • POCO template with XML mapping generation is added
  • Templates usability is improved
  • Template Editor is significantly improved
  • Ability to declare additional properties for model objects is added
  • Ability to specify .NET attributes for model objects is added
  • Implemented runtime support for literals specified in the 'Default Value' entity field property
  • The "Preserve schema name in storage" option is added
  • The bug with generation of attach/detach methods for many-to-many associations is fixed
  • The bug with external mapping is fixed
  • The bug with default values set via a function for string fields is fixed
  • The bug with the "Access" combobox of the Association editor is fixed
Devart development team
http://www.devart.com/linqconnect/

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