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Entity Developer is a popular ORM tool from Devart with many interesting features. In this article, we’ll use Entity Developer to generate an entity data model and its corresponding classes.
Once your data model is available, you can create a new query from the Tools -> Entity Developer menu option inside Visual Studio. This article discusses how to work with queries in Entity Developer.
dotConnect for SQL Server is a fast ORM for SQL Server from Devart that is built on top of ADO.NET and provides you an opportunity to connect to SQL Server databases from .NET or .NET Core applications. dotConnect for SqlServer, earlier known as SQLDirect.NET, is a fast, scalable data access framework that can be used in WinForms, ASP.NET, etc. This article talks about the features and benefits of dotConnect for Sql Server and how we can work with it in ASP.NET Core.
To be able to work with the code examples demonstrated in this article, you should have the following installed in your system:
Entity Developer from Devart is a very powerful modeling and code generation tool, an ORM tool to be more precise. Entity developer lets you design your data access layer visually — at the drop of a hat. Since the data access layer generated by Devart contains automated and generated code, chances of error are minimal.
The official website of Entity Developer states: "Entity Developer can help you design models for various .NET ORMs in one unified interface. You can get support for all ORMs in one tool, or you may purchase a separate edition, working with one of the supported ORMs."
The article “Abstraction Tiers of Notations, Part 1” introduced abstraction tier concept, and in the article “Birth of New Generation of Programming Languages? Part 2,” I have tried to apply it to the evolution of the general-purpose programming languages. However, this framework is applicable to domain-specific languages as well. Let’s consider one of the most popular domains, where DSLs are widely used: data manipulation languages.
Firstly, let’s briefly examine current technologies available on the market. We will consider only employed abstraction tiers of data manipulation language for the database technologies while ignoring other aspects like distribution models, transaction support, or performance. While these aspects are very important for technology selection, they are orthogonal to the supported abstraction tiers.