Key Features And Compatibility

Platforms

• .NET 5.0-9.0
• .NET Core 2.0-3.1
• .NET Standard 2.0-2.1
• .NET Frameworks 4.5-4.8
• ASP.NET Core
• Blazor
• .NET MAUI (previously Xamarin)

.NET languages

• C#
• VB.NET
• F#

Entity Framework features

• Change tracking and object data caching support
• Inheritance mapping support (TPH, TPT, TPCT models)
• Ability to build database-independent applications

With Entity Developer

• Visual model creation and code generation
• Model update from the database
• Reverse engineering of database objects to an entity model
• Storage schema editing of Entity Framework
• Standalone usage or Visual Studio integration

Security standards

• SSL/TLS connections
• Connection through proxy servers
• Connected and disconnected data access models
• Unicode connections
• Operation in the FIPS 140-2 mode in Windows

Certification

• DigiCert Trusted G4 Code Signing RSA4096 SHA384
  2021 CA1

IDE integration

Visual Studio

Microsoft Visual Studio 2015-2022

• Advanced design-time component and property editors
• IntelliSense descriptions for dotConnect for Zoho Books classes
• Syntax highlighting and SQL code completion in design-time editors
• Convenient instant data preview and management at design time

Without design-time integration

• Visual Studio Code
• JetBrains ReSharper and Rider
• Cursor, Windsurf, etc

SQL support

• Powerful local SQL engine with support for SQL-92 compliant SELECT statement
• CREATE, READ, UPDATE, and DELETE operations with standard SQL statements
• Сomplex JOINs, WHERE conditions, and other SQL-specific features