New Versions of ADO.NET Providers for Cloud Applications Are Released!

Shalex · Post by **Shalex** » Tue 26 Apr 2016 10:58

Dear users,

Devart is glad to announce the new versions of cloud applications, built over the ADO.NET architecture. New versions of dotConnect data providers offer you support for Entity Framework Core RC1.

Entity Framework Core Support

Entity Framework Core (formerly, Entity Framework 7) is a new version or Microsoft widely used ORM, which is completely redesigned and intended to be a multi-platform and more lightweight ORM solution that can be used in traditional .NET scenarios, in cloud, on devices, etc.

Currently Entity Framework Core support in our providers is implemented only for the full .NET Framework platform .NET Framework 4.5.1 and higher.

Since Entity Framework Core is a completely redesigned ORM, which shares little but a name and LINQ support with previous Entity Framework versions, there are a lot of changes in our Entity Framework providers for Entity Framework Core. You can read more about these changes in our blog articles: Entity Framework Core 1 (Entity Framework 7) Support and Migrating Entity Framework 6 projects to Entity Framework Core 1 (Entity Framework 7).

Entity Framework Assembly Name Change

In addition to Entity Framework Core support we announce that our Entity Framework-related assemblies are renamed for all the providers that support Entity Framework. Previously each of the providers contained several assemblies with the same name - Devart.Data.<SourceName>.Entity.dll for different Entity Framework versions, which had different revision number. This could cause confusions, so now assemblies for different versions of Entity Framework have different names.

Entity Framework v4:
- Devart.Data.<SourceName>.Entity.EF4.dll
Entity Framework v6:
- Devart.Data.<SourceName>.Entity.EF6.dll
Entity Framework Core:
- Devart.Data.<SourceName>.Entity.EFCore.dll

You need to add references to the assemblies, corresponding to the Entity Framework version used in your project. Additionally you need to change the Entity Framework provider registration record in the config file to reflect the assembly name change.

Note that the revision number is no longer used to indicate the required Entity Framework version - it is 0 for all the assemblies.

Other Improvements

Here is the complete list of new features:

If you wish to provide feedback on the new versions, you can do it in our forums or with contact form. There is also a feedback form in the support zone of every product. We are always glad to hear your comments and take into account your development needs.

Devart development team
https://www.devart.com/dotconnect/#cloud