New features in the Entity Framework support!

Devart · Post by **Devart** » Thu 29 Nov 2012 15:52

Dear users,

We are glad to announce the new features that are available in the Entity Framework support in the latest version:

Support for spatial data types in Entity Framework 5 is added (Oracle)
Oracle Spatial MDSYS.SDO_GEOMETRY support in Entity Framework 5 is added
SharpMap GIS library support in Entity Framework 5 is added (new Devart.Data.Oracle.Entity.SharpMap.dll assembly is added) (Oracle)
Devart.Data.Oracle.Entity.Migrations.dll assembly built with the 5.0 version of EntityFramework.dll is added (Oracle)
Devart.Data.Oracle.Entity.dll assembly built with the 4.5 version of .NET Framework is added (Oracle)
The config.QueryOptions.AdvancedMetadataQuery option (default value is False) is added to turn on the advanced metadata query mode like the one which is used by Visual Studio Entity Data Model Wizard (Oracle)
The bug with retrieving metadata information about primary keys in ADO.NET Entity Data Model/LightSwitch when using database user with limited privileges is fixed (PostgreSQL)
The bug with the IgnoreSchemaName and IgnoreDboSchemaName options when working with EdmFunction is fixed (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL)