Devart Entity Developer is an easy-to-use modeling and code generation tool for ADO.NET Entity Framework, NHibernate, and LINQ to SQL. The new version supports ENUM types originally introduced in the Entity Framework June 2011 CTP release. The application has become more user-friendly as entity shape coloring, selection-driven highlighting, application and diagram skins have been added to help users improve their experience with the software.
Popular and loved by many users, Entity Developer introduces new approaches for designing ORM models, facilitating the development of database applications, and boosting overall productivity. Entity Developer allows to create and edit Entity Framework, NHibernate, and LINQ to SQL models visually, without typing a line of XML code. It supports creating all kinds of mapping, such as table splitting, mapping entity to several tables, complex types, inheritance hierarchies, creating entities from SELECT statements and methods from SQL code, etc. Out-of-the-box code generation is very flexible due to using T4-like templates, allowing virtually anything users want for code generation. Entity Developer seamlessly integrates with Visual Studio 2008 and 2010.
Among the major advancements of Entity Developer 4.1 the following can be named:
Enum Types Support Enhanced
Table-Values Functions and Spatial Data Support Implemented
New Visual Features Added
Major improvements in the usability and user-friendliness of the application include entity shape coloring, selection-driven highlighting, application and diagram skins.
The application price starts at as low as $99.95.
Like any other Devart’s product, Entity Developer has a 30 day free trial option. A free fully functional trial version can be downloaded here: http://www.devart.com/entitydeveloper/download.html
