EntityDAC Revision History

4.0.0 01-Apr-26

  • Added support for RAD Studio 13 Florence Release 1
  • Added support for the Arm64EC target platform
  • Fixed bug with initializing an entity attribute with the NULL default value

3.5.0 22-Sep-25

  • Added support for RAD Studio 13 Florence
  • Fixed a bug in generation of the CREATE TABLE statement for the SQL Server dialect when creating a database from a model
  • Fixed a bug where RAD Studio 10.3 was missing from the installer

3.4.0 25-Mar-25

  • Added support for RAD Studio 12 Athens Release 3
  • Added support for the RAD Studio 64-bit IDE

3.3.2 29-Oct-24

  • Added support for RAD Studio 12 Athens Release 2
  • Fixed bug with updating an entity which has a Bytes property using the PostgreSQL dialect

3.3.1 16-May-24

  • Added support for RAD Studio 12 Athens Release 1
  • Now Release 1 for RAD Studio 12 Athens, Delphi 12 Athens, and C++Builder 12 Athens is required

3.3.0 15-Nov-23

  • Added support for RAD Studio 12
  • Added support for macOS Sonoma
  • Added support for iOS 17
  • Added support for Android 13
  • Fixed bug with executing LINQ queries which contain quantifiers using the dbExpress provider

3.2.0 30-Mar-23

  • Added support for RAD Studio 11 Alexandria Release 3
  • Fixed bug with an invalid position of a newly inserted record in TEntityDataSet
  • Fixed bug with a memory leak in a one-to-many association
  • Fixed bug with a memory leak in the Demo project
  • Fixed bug with a "Value too long" exception in the SQL Server dialect
  • Fixed several bugs with Table-Per-Type inheritance

3.1.0 02-Nov-22

  • Added support for RAD Studio 11 Alexandria Release 2
  • Added support for iOS Simulator ARM 64-bit target platform
  • Added support for iOS 15
  • Added support for Android 12
  • Fixed bug with querying an entity which has both a TPT-descendant and an association
  • Fixed bith updating an entity which has a boolean property using TPgDACDataProvider
  • Fixed bug with opening a model which contains both inherited entities and the Many-To-Many association

3.0.2 27-Oct-21

  • Bug in Entity Developer after installing Windows updates is fixed

3.0.1 29-Sep-21

  • RAD Studio 11 Alexandria is supported
  • macOS ARM is supported
  • Bug with the memory leak on in the TEntityDataSet.Cancel method is fixed
  • Bug with displaying a recordset with the only record in a DBGrid is fixed
  • Bug with the One-To-Many association built on GUID columns is fixed
  • Bug with updating an entity which has long attribute names is fixed

2.4.1 15-Jun-20

  • RAD Studio 10.4 Sydney is supported

2.3.4 20-Jan-20

  • Android 64-bit is supported
  • Now Trial editions for macOS and Linux are fully functional
  • The Bytes attribute for the Guid generator is supported
  • Bug with compiling a LINQ statement containing both OrderBy and Limit clauses is fixed
  • Bug with AV when loading an XML-model is fixed
  • Bug with creating a One-To-Many association for an inherited entity is fixed
  • Bug with the CreateDatabase method of the EntityConnection component is fixed

2.2.3 25-Jul-19

  • macOS 64-bit is supported
  • Release 2 for RAD Studio 10.3 Rio, Delphi 10.3 Rio, and C++Builder 10.3 Rio is now required
  • The Bytes attribute for the Guid generator is supported
  • Bug with compiling a LINQ statement containing both OrderBy and Limit clauses is fixed
  • Bug with AV when loading a XML-model is fixed

2.1.2 30-Nov-18

  • RAD Studio 10.3 Rio is supported
  • Bug with declaring multiple enum types for a model is fixed

2.0.1 14-Aug-18

  • iOS is supported
  • Android is supported
  • Linux is supported
  • NexusDB data provider is added
  • Now contexts are thread-safe
  • Support for using TGUID as an entity key or as an expression argument is added
  • Support for enum types is added
  • Now the Contains method in LINQ expressions can accept a subquery or a set of expressions as an argument
  • Now Entity Developer includes Firebird .NET Provider 5.12.1.0
  • Published access level for an entity property is added
  • EntityDAC.Common.Xml unit is renamed to EntityDAC.Common.DacXml
  • Several bugs with persistent fields and field expressions in TEntityDataSet are fixed
  • Bug with data providers distributed with EntityDeveloper is fixed
  • Bug with incorrect mapping of longtext fields in the MySQL provider is fixed
  • Bug with registering the Firebird provider in Entity Developer is fixed
  • Bug with incorrect displaying of the Entity Developer version is fixed
  • Bug with inserting datetime2 data using ADO data provider is fixed
  • Bug with JOINing entities which are a TPT-parent and a TPT-descendant is fixed
  • Bug with handling BCD-fields is fixed
  • Bug with setting an entity reference to Null is fixed
  • Bug with working the "Layout Diagram" function in Entity Developer is fixed

1.7.13 19-Feb-18

  • Support for using TGUID as an entity key or as an expression argument is added
  • Support for enum types is added
  • Published access level for an entity property is added
  • Now the Contains method in LINQ expressions can accept a subquery or a set of expressions as an argument
  • Now EntityDeveloper includes Firebird .NET Provider 5.12.1.0
  • Several bugs with persistent fields and field expressions in TEntityDataSet are fixed
  • Bug with incorrect mapping of longtext fields in the MySQL provider is fixed
  • Bug with registering the Firebird provider in EntityDeveloper is fixed
  • Bug with incorrent displaying of the EntityDeveloper version is fixed
  • Bug with inserting datetime2 data using ADO data provider is fixed
  • Bug with JOINing entities which are a TPT-parent and a TPT-descendant is fixed
  • Bug with handling BCD-fields is fixed

1.6.12 13-Apr-17

  • RAD Studio 10.2 Tokyo is supported
  • Bug with an incorrect query result when an expression contains Distinct is fixed
  • Bug with using the AS keyword in the InterBase provider is fixed
  • Bug with re-executing queries is fixed
  • Bug with Master-Detail relationship in TEntityDataSet on character fields is fixed

1.5.11 02-Dec-16

  • The ConnectionDefName connection string parameter in FireDAC data provider is supported
  • Cache disabling feature is improved
  • Bug with compatibility with other Devart Data Access Components is fixed
  • Bug with opening EntityDataSet is fixed
  • Bug with saving an entity inside a transaction using SDAC data provider is fixed
  • Bug with connecting using dbExpress data provider is fixed
  • Bug with lookup fields is fixed
  • Several bugs with Table-Per-Type inheritance are fixed
  • Several bugs with Many-To-Many association are fixed

1.5.10 05-Jul-16

  • Bug with compatibility with other Devart Data Access Components is fixed
  • Bug with opening an EntityDataSet is fixed

1.5.9 29-Apr-16

  • RAD Studio 10.1 Berlin is supported
  • The ServerDataType property in the TMetaAttribute class is added
  • Handling of attribute default values is improved
  • Bug with handling Null values in the Contains method of a filter clause is fixed
  • Bug with using subqueries in a Join LINQ clause is fixed
  • Bug with building a column list for the Select LINQ clause is fixed
  • Bug with saving entities using the SQL Server dialect is fixed
  • Bug with saving entities using the ZEOS provider is fixed

1.4.8 20-Jan-16

  • The Options.CollectionOptions property is added for the Context component
  • Cache disabling feature is improved
  • Bug with Connection component in Trial edition is fixed
  • Bug with compilation in Professional edition with source code is fixed
  • Bug with model loading is fixed
  • Bug with incorrect error messages is fixed
  • Bug with Min and Max methods in LINQ expressions is fixed
  • Bug with using the Contains method in a filter clause is fixed
  • Bug with field expressions in the EntityDataSet component is fixed
  • Bug with AV when disabling entity cache at design-time is fixed
  • Bug with entity associations generation is fixed
  • Bug with accessing a linked collection from a newly created entity is fixed

1.4.7 19-Nov-15

  • Cache disabling feature is improved
  • Bug with appending a record to TEntityDataSet containing field expressions is fixed
  • Bug with attaching new entities containing references is fixed
  • Bug with query caching is fixed
  • Bug with accessing an entity reference which is previously created is fixed
  • Bug with the obsolete Clear method in nullable types is fixed
  • Bug with saving a deleted entity is fixed
  • Bug with handling associations in inherited entities is fixed
  • Bug with demo project in Trial Edition is fixed

1.4.6 17-Sep-15

  • RAD Studio 10 Seattle is supported
  • Capability to disable entity caching with TDataContext.Cache.Enabled and TMetaType.AllowCaching properties is added
  • Bug with AV in the EntityXmlModel component when loading a XML-model is fixed
  • Bug with handling BCD-fields in InterBase provider is fixed
  • Bug with getting an attached entity by a condition is fixed
  • Bug with getting modified entities by a condition is fixed
  • Bug with adding a record to the DBGrid component is fixed
  • Several errors in the Demo model are fixed

1.3.5 14-May-15

  • RAD Studio XE8 is supported
  • Bug with generating junction class names in EntityDeveloper is fixed
  • Bug with using filtered collections in TEntityDataSet is fixed
  • Bug with handling class properties with Auto-Sync enabled is fixed

1.2.4 27-Jan-15

  • Bug in EntityDeveloper when opening an existing model is fixed
  • Bug in EntityDeveloper when opening a class property editor is fixed
  • Bug with getting Identity attributes in the SDAC data provider is fixed
  • Bug with getting RecordCount in the dbExpress data provider is fixed

1.2.3 26-Dec-14

  • Auto-Sync for entity property is supported
  • Now InterBase and Firebird are different SQL dialects
  • Ability to reload Entity that was changed in database is added
  • IdGenerator=Increment for entity property is added in EntityDeveloper
  • Bug with obtaining identity field values while saving an entity is fixed
  • Bug with Delete and Remove entity from Collection is fixed
  • Bug with the TEntityDataSet.Refresh is fixed
  • Bug with parsing string LINQ conditions is fixed
  • Bug with re-using a LINQ query is fixed
  • Bug with handling the default value of an entity attribute is fixed
  • Bug with truncate string entity attributes stored as memo in database is fixed

1.2.2 24-Sep-14

  • RAD Studio XE7 is supported
  • Firebird .NET Provider in EntityDeveloper is added
  • Units are renamed: - EntityDAC.Common.CLRClasses.pas -> EntityDAC.Common.DacClasses.pas - EntityDAC.Common.MemData.pas -> EntityDAC.Common.DacMemData.pas - EntityDAC.Common.MemUtils.pas -> EntityDAC.Common.DacMemUtils.pas - EntityDAC.Common.Win32Timer.pas -> EntityDAC.Common.DacWin32Timer.pas - EntityDAC.Common.MemDS.pas -> EntityDAC.Common.DataSet.pas
  • Bug with creating classes with the same name in EntityDeveloper is fixed
  • Bug with using national characters in object names in EntityDeveloper is fixed
  • Bug with data provider name conflicts in EntityDeveloper installation is fixed
  • Bug with using a Delphi keyword as a table column name is fixed
  • Bug with loading an XML-mapped model is fixed
  • Bug with the Connection property of the Context component is fixed
  • Bug with applying SubmitChanges or RejectChanges is fixed
  • Bug with handling of the Now function in LINQ queries is fixed
  • Bug with saving an updated entity on MS SQL Server is fixed
  • Bug with converting ftTimeStamp field values to TDateTime entity attributes is fixed

1.1.1 11-Aug-14

  • Initial release of EntityDAC

1.0.8 Release Candidate 1-Aug-14

  • Entity classes generation was improved and all classes generated automatically should be regenerated by EntityDeveloper
  • Bug with setting a LINQ query result as a source of the detail dataset in master-detail is fixed
  • Bug with re-executing a LINQ query is fixed
  • Bug in the FireDAC data provider is fixed
  • Bug in the IBX data provider is fixed

1.0.7 Beta 16-Jun-14

  • Performance is improved

1.0.6 Beta 22-May-14

  • RAD Studio XE6 is supported

1.0.5 Beta 16-Apr-14

  • Express edition is added

1.0.4 Beta 14-Apr-14

  • Bugs related to templates in Entity Developer are fixed
  • Other improvements

1.0.3 Beta 24-Mar-14

  • Bug in installation if some of the IDEs doesn't have the required updates installed is fixed
  • Bugs related to BLOB types are fixed
  • Other improvements

1.0.2 Beta 06-Feb-14

  • Namespaces are added
  • Bug with Demo compilation is fixed

1.0.1 Beta 04-Feb-14

  • First release of EntityDAC Beta