Description

Entity Developer is a powerful ORM designer for ADO.NET Entity Framework, Entity Framework Core, Hibernate, LinqConnect, Telerik Data Access, and LINQ to SQL. It introduces new approaches for designing ORM models, boosts productivity, and facilitates the development of database applications.

Develop Faster

Design your data access layer visually, via drag-n-drop, and then generate code automatically. Or simply generate a model from a database or vice versa in a couple of minutes.

Do Less Mistakes

Automating data access layer generation helps you do less mistakes in your code. Our code generation templates are used for years and utilized by hundreds of users.

Professional Tool

Devart develops solutions for .NET Data access for 15 years, and our ORM designer is 9 years on the market. It is a professional tool, created by experienced developers and designed to make you more productive.

Visual Designer for a Variety of .NET ORMs

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.

Feature-Rich Designer with Powerful Code Generation

Seamless Visual Studio integration

Support for Model-First and Database-First

Visual creation for nearly all kinds of mapping

Applying model changes to database or vice versa

Powerful model refactoring

Optimized work with large models

Design-time LINQ/ESQL/HQL query execution

Viewing and editing of data in source tables

Background model validation

T4 template-based C# or VB code generation

Lots of predefined templates

File per class, partial class generation

Custom attributes support

Custom template support

Template editor with syntax highlighting

High quality of generated code

Highly customizable generation

Console application for automation

Wide Mapping Support

Edit nearly any kind of mapping for all the supported ORMs visually.

Visual editors for classes, properties, complex types, enums

Support for various kinds of inheritances and associations

Mapping CRUD operations to stored procedures

Create methods from stored routines or command texts

Visual editing of a storage part of Entity Framework v1-v6 models

Table splitting, entity splitting, query views

and many more...

Database-First Approach Support

Easily generate a model from a database and apply database changes to the model. Switch to model-first whenever necessary.

Generate a model from a database in a few clicks

Apply changes of the database schema to the model

Configure generation with lots of various options

Flexibly configure naming of generated classes, members, and methods

Get from database to ready-to-use code in minutes

Model-First Approach Support

Create a model and then generate a database from it automatically. Apply model changes to the database without losing data where possible.

Generate a database from a model in a few clicks

Specify a default set of properties to be added to each new entity

View, select, and apply model changes to the database

Flexibly configure naming of generated tables and columns

Visual Studio Integration

Entity Developer is seamlessly integrated into Visual Studio; however, if you don't have Visual Studio, you still can use Entity Developer as a separate application.

Design model directly in the IDE

Visual Studio 2008 - 2019 support

Refactoring integration

Code is generated when you save the model

Errors in model are displayed in Visual Studio Error List

Model diagrams, template editor behave like usual IDE documents

Documentation is integrated into Visual Studio documentation

Powerful Refactoring

Powerful Model Refactoring wizard allows you to quickly configure mapping aspects that cannot be automatically generated from database. It allows you to create:

inheritance hierarchies,

complex types,

table splitting

in just a couple of clicks.

Optimized Work with Large Models

Entity Developer is optimized to ensure comfortable and efficient work with large models, containing thousands of entities.

Highly optimized metadata retrieving

Split model into several thematic diagrams

Fast code generation

LINQ Query Execution against Models

Execute LINQ, Entity SQL, or HQL queries (depending on the ORM used) without the need to finish your application.

Test your model at design-time

Preview the returned data and browse related entities

View and edit data of the database tables directly

Template-Based Code Generation

Template-based code generation system in Entity Developer can satisfy even the most demanding developers.

Generate C# or Visual Basic code

T4-template based code generation

Editable templates

Wide Choice of Predefined Templates

Entity Developer offers a large set of predefined templates for generating C# or Visual Basic code for various needs.

Templates for POCO or persistence aware classes

Fluent or XML mapping

Templates for DTO classes

Templates for Data Annotation Metadata

Templates for WCF RIA Service

MVC controller and view templates

And more...

Flexible Generation Settings

Entity Developer allows you to configure code generation to a large extent with template properties, custom attribute support, extended properties for model objects, etc.

Generate all classes to one file or file per class

Configure project folders to output files

Generate extensible partial classes with code behind

Configure generation with template properties

Specify attributes to use for model objects

Custom Templates Support

Even if the standard Entity Developer code generation is not enough for you, you can achieve virtually anything by creating your own custom templates, even generate code for other programming languages.

Convenient template editor with syntax highlight

Store templates with model or in ED resources

Add properties for model objects that affect generation

Get unlimited generation capabilities

Console Support

Entity Developer provides a console application that allows automating code generation/database updates and performing common operations via console commands:

Generate model from database

Validate model

Generate code from model

Generate create database from model script

Generate update database from model script

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