dotConnect for DB2 2.5 is released!

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dotConnect for DB2 2.5 is released!

Post by Devart » Tue 24 Dec 2019 09:30

Dear users,

Devart is glad to announce the release of dotConnect for DB2 2.5, Devart ADO.NET data provider for DB2 with support for Entity Framework ORM. The new version offers you support for Entity Framework Core 3.1.

After Microsoft released Entity Framework 3 only for .NET Core 3 (.NET Standard 2.1), it caused certain criticism because of not supporting Full .NET Framework. Microsoft reacted to this criticism by making Entity Framework Core 3.1 compatible with .NET Standard 2.0, and thus, allowing developers to use it in projects, targeting Full .NET Framework as well as .NET Core.

So finally we also can support Entity Framework Core 3 for Full .NET Framework too, and we have added this support to all of our ADO.NET providers for cloud apps and for major databases.

dotConnect for DB2 now includes a new Devart.Data.DB2.Entity.EFCore.dll assembly for Entity Framework Core 3.1 support on Full .NET Framework. You can find it in the \Entity\EFCore3 subfolder of the provider installation folder.

dotConnect for DB2 also keeps supporting Entity Framework 6, and we have updated it to support Entity Framework 6.4.

Here is the complete list of dotConnect for DB2 2.5.909 features:
  • Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5 Preview is supported
  • The bug with using Toolbox component DB2DataSource in web projects of Visual Studio 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019 is fixed
  • The bug with enabling Devart DataSet Editor in Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio 2019 is fixed
Entity Developer
  • The bug with creating one-to-one association basing on an optional FK in EF Core Model is fixed
  • The bug with code generation for oneOrZero-to-one and one-to-many associations based on an optional FK in EF Core Model is fixed
  • The bug with generating a mapping for a unique constraint specified in owned type property of EF Core Model is fixed
Entity Framework support
  • Entity Framework 6.4 is supported
  • Entity Framework Core 3.1 is supported
  • The new \Entity\EFCore3\Devart.Data.DB2.Entity.EFCore.dll assembly compiled with EF Core 3.1 and .NET Framework 4.6.1 is added
  • The new config.CodeFirstOptions.TruncateAllLongNames option (default value is False) is added to use EF Core 2/EF Core 3 implementation for truncating long names of columns and PK/FK/IX/UX
  • The config.DatabaseScript.ForeignKey.IndexCreation configuration option is supported in EF Core 1/EF Core 2/EF Core 3
  • The bug with creating a unique constraint in the database via EF Core Code-First Migrations is fixed
  • The bug with applying .ValueGeneratedOnAdd() to the string, guid, byte[] properties with .Key() and without .HasDefaultValueSql() in EF Core is fixed
  • The bug with detecting implicit database column type, when model mapping and migration mapping are different, via EF Core Code-First Migrations is fixed
  • The bug with generating SQL when using explicit cast in LINQ queries in EF Core 1/EF Core 2 is fixed

Devart development team
http://www.devart.com/dotconnect/db2/

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