Devart Database Connectivity Solutions for .NET with Improved ORM Model Designer are Released!

Devart successfully released the new versions of Entity Developer Model Designer, LinqConnect ORM solution, and Devart dotConnect ADO.NET Providers. All of them contain new greatly improved Entity Developer 4.2.
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Dec. 16, 2011 - PRLog -- Devart is glad to announce the release of the new versions of Entity Developer Model Designer, v.4.2, Devart ORM solution LinqConnect, v.3.1, and complete set of Devart dotConnect ADO.NET Providers for most popular databases.
Entity Developer - is a powerful modeling and code generation tool for ADO.NET Entity Framework, LinqConnect, NHibernate, and LINQ to SQL. The new version of Entity Developer offers the developers a number of options to configure Entity Developer appearance and behaviour in the new Options dialog box and advanced support for entity property validation.
LinqConnect - an enhanced LINQ to SQL compatible ORM solution with extended functionality, support for SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
DotConnect data providers are the enhanced database connectivity solutions, built over the ADO.NET architecture. They support Entity Framework and LinqConnect ORM solutions.
LinqConnect and dotConnect data providers include new improved Entity Developer 4.2 and new dotConnect data providers offer enhanced Entity Framework support.
Entity Developer Improvements
New Options dialog box allows the developers to tweak rules for mapping database data types to .NET types for different databases. It provides great flexibility of data type mappings. You can create, edit, or delete rules for each data type and even create subrules for different type precision, scale, or length values. For example, by default number(1) is mapped to bool type, however you may want to map it to the int type. Now you can easily map this data type as you prefer. The new dialog box is available from the Tools menu.
In addition, now Entity Developer provides advanced suppport for entity property validation. It supports Enterprise Library, NHibernate Validator, and Data Annotations validation frameworks. Entity Developer eliminates the need to manually place the validation attributes in the generated code. You just need to select the preferred validation framework and set validation parameters, such as max value, min value, max length, min length, regular expression, or to select one of the predefined property formats. After this Entity Developer will generate validation attributes for entity properties in the generated code. Later you may choose another validation framework, and Entity Developer will generate correct validation attributes for the new framework automatically.
The new Options dialog box also allows you to set custom keyboard shortcuts for the most often performed operations in Entity Developer and specify the default appearance and printing settings for your project diagrams.
Entity Framework Support Improvements
In the new versions of Devart dotConnect ADO.NET providers for Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite the behavior of the Database has been changed. Delete code-first method to disable constraints when deleting database object and added more options to manage LIKE behaviour when using Linq to Entities extension methods .Contains() .EndsWith() .StartsWith(). In addition, dotConnect for Oracle now supports BOOLEAN parameters of stored procedures in Entity Data Model Wizard.

Pricing and Availability
Entity Developer 4.2 is available in follow product editions:
Express Edition is completely FREE software. It is limited to 10 entities in the project and does not allow customization of code templates.
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 corresponding ORM solutions. Entity Developer for LINQ to SQL is available for a price of $ 99.95, and  Entity Developer for Entity Framework costs $ 199.95.
Entity Developer for NHibernate supports any third-party ADO.NET data providers to design NHibernate models. Price of Entity developer for NHibernate is $ 199.95
Entity Developer Professional Edition combines the functionality of the previous three editions and available for a price as little as $ 299.95
You are welcome to download Entity Developer 4.2 at http://www.devart.com/entitydeveloper/download.html

LinqConnect 3.1 is available in following editions:
Professional edition is a fully-featured ORM solution, including Express version of dotConnect data providers, and supporting SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
Standard edition is a perfect replacement for Microsoft LINQ to SQL. It is completely compatible with LINQ to SQL and includes all advanced LinqConnect features. It supports SQL Server database only.
Express edition is a FREE limited edition, which has the same features that Professional edition except for custom code generation templates, and supports the same database servers, but it is limited to 10 entities in the model.

A Single license price of LinqConnect 3.1 starts as little as $149.95.
You are welcome to download LinqConnect 3.1 at http://www.devart.com/linqconnect/download.html
Free Express edition and fully-functional trial version for each product from the dotConnect product line are available for download.

A Single license price of dotConnect Data Providers starts from as little as $99.95, and you can always choose the edition that matches your needs best.

To learn more, download trial and free editions or order a license please visit Devart site:
www.devart.com/dotconnect/

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Devart (formerly known as Core Lab) is a software development company specializing in native connectivity solutions and development tools for the most popular databases, including Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, InterBase, Firebird, and SQLite.
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