v6.0 [Jun 7, 2016]
The current build is 6.0.20 from 09-Jun-2016
The DbProviderFactory provider registration in application's *.config is supported by the Entity Developer version integrated into Visual Studio
The default behaviour is changed: bit(2..8), bit(9..16), bit(17..32) are mapped to Byte, Int16, Int32 correspondingly by Create Model Wizard and Update Model From Database Wizard (MySQL)
Telerik Data Access support
Telerik Data Access support is added
NHibernate support
NHibernate Loquacious API for mapping by code is supported
The IsExternal functionality is supported for the complex types
Entity Framework support
Entity Framework Core support is added
v5.8 [Aug 20, 2015]
Visual Studio 2015 is supported
The support for materialized views is implemented (Oracle)
The behaviour is changed: now the database comments are generated via the Update Database From Model and Generate Database Script From Model wizards (PostgreSQL).
v5.7 [Nov 9, 2013]
Features:
- Visual Studio 2013 is supported
- SQL Server 2014 is supported
- The behaviour is changed: installation with the /VERYSILENT install parameter will uninstall the other version of the product without any dialog box if it is installed
- The behaviour is changed: the values of "Target Server" and "Server Version" can be reset via the Model Settings > Synchronization > Mapping dialog despite the fact whether connection is specified in Database Explorer or not
- The behaviour is changed: now replication stored procedures are not shown on the "Select database objects" step of the Create/Update Model From Database wizard (SQL Server)
- The behaviour is changed: now paths to assemblies with attributes (Model Settings -> Model -> Attributes) are saved and used as relative paths
NHibernate support
- The Generate Partial Class option in the Fluent NHibernate template is implemented
- Code generation for model classes is improved: the initialization of the properties, having default values, when creating classes is added
- The behaviour is changed: the "Regenerate Storage and Mapping" option clears existing mapping settings to make NHibernate runtime to use default storage values
Entity Framework support
- Entity Framework 6 is supported
- The new "Provider Manifest Token" model property is implemented to identify the target server
- The "WCF DataMember Attribute on Navigation Properties" property is added to the Data Transfer Object template for pointing the end (-s) where the attribute should be generated
- More information messages, when validating EF6 models basing on the EntityFramework.dll functionality, are added
- The information message about availability of NuGet Package Manager on the workstation is added in the Entity Developer version integrated into Visual Studio
- The override modifier for DbSet class properties generated by DbContext templates is added
- The behaviour is changed: the validation of EF6 models depends on the EntityFramework.dll functionality only (.NET Framework 4.5 is not required any more)
- The behaviour is changed: now a property in the generated code is initialized basing on the default value in CSDL only (instead of default values in any of SSDL and CSDL)
v5.0 [Dec 21, 2012]
The functionality of ignoring columns in the database in the "Update To/From Database" wizards if they were omitted once before is implemented
Warnings about objects that are not mapped are added
A SHIFT+DELETE keyboard shortcut for deleting entity, complex type, or enum from diagram only is added
An INSERT keyboard shortcut for creating a new entity, adding property to the selected entity/complex type or new member to enum is added
The possibility to view notes, added through the "Documentation" property, for all the diagram objects via hints is implemented
Hints for diagram objects are improved
Visual development system for MySQL database design, modeling, and creation.
