General usability
- Real RAD for database applications
- Fully compliant with ADO.NET
- 100% managed code
- Highly usable design time support
- Easy to deploy
- All DB2 data types support
Compatibility
- Full support of the latest versions of DB2
- Full support for x64 architecture
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2010, and 2008 support
- CodeGear RAD Studio 2007 support
- Embarcadero Delphi Prism support
- SQL Server 2008 - 2016 Business Intelligence Solutions support
- Sync Framework support
ADO.NET technology support
- Advanced support for ADO.NET Entity Framework v1, v4, v5, and v6
- Entity Framework Core support [New]
- Batch update support
- Extended metadata information retrieval
- Enhanced pooling control through connection string
- Connection string builder
- Provider factory for generating key data access classes
- Asynchronous command execution
- Provider-specific types support
ADO.NET Entity Framework
- Conceptual approach to enterprise development
- High performance
- Wide support for LINQ to Entities
- Entity Framework Code First support
- Entity Framework Code First Migrations support
- Wide support for EntitySQL
- Full CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) support
- Wide support for server data types
- Change tracking support
- Object data caching
- Inheritance mapping support (TPH, TPT, and TPCT models)
- Capability to use stored procedures when manipulating data
- Stored procedure import support
- Ability to build database-independent applications
- Visual Studio EDM Wizard support
- Reverse engineering of database objects to entity model
- Support for most Entity Framework Canonical Functions
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Visual model creation and code generation with
Entity Developer
- Update Model From Database functionality for Entity Developer
- Update To Database with Mapping Synchronization functionality for Entity Developer
Extended data access technologies and functionality
- Powerful DB2DataTable component for manipulating individual tables or query result
- NonBlocking mode allows fetching data asynchronously in the background
- On-demand data fetch for data-bound controls
- Paginal access to query result
- Server side master-detail relation based on queries
- Support for Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block (DAAB)
- Object-oriented building of SELECT statements
- Extended warning and error information retrieval
- Extended interface for processing execution exceptions
- DB2DataAdapter.Fill method with sequential fetch support
- Ability to defer fetching of some columns in a resultset
- Named parameters support
Business Intelligence Solutions Support
- SSIS DataFlow Source and Destination components
- Analysis Services support
- Reporting Services support
WinForms-specific features
- Flexible data binding with DataLink component
- InterForm technology for cross-form components cooperation
- Global position synchronization within a data source
ASP.NET-specific features
- ASP.NET Identity 1 and 2 support
- ASP.NET data providers: Membership, Role, Session State, Profile, Personalization, Site Map, Web Event
- ASP.NET SimpleMembership providers support
- DB2DataSource web component
Script execution
- Advanced script execution features with DB2Script component
- Support for executing individual statements in scripts
- Support for executing huge scripts stored in files with dynamic loading
SQL execution monitoring
- Extended SQL tracing capabilities with DB2Monitor component
- Support for dbMonitor utility for advanced tracing analysis and control
- Per-component SQL tracing
- Optional log output to IDE toolwindows
Design-time enhancements
- Automatic component registration in toolbox
- Advanced integration with Visual Studio 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2022 including Server Explorer, Data Source wizard, TableAdapter configuration, Query Builder and configuring web component DB2DataSource
- DataSet Wizard to create and edit typed DB2-oriented datasets
- DataSet Manager to list and bind datasets in the project
- DataSet Editor to edit dataset contents
- Advanced design-time component and property editors
- IntelliSense descriptions for dotConnect for DB2 classes
- Syntax highlighting in design-time editors
- TableMappings editor
- Convenient instant data preview and management in design time
Product clarity
- Complete documentation sets integrated into Visual Studio and CodeGear Delphi
- Integration with Visual Studio and MSDN help collections
- Documentation available as a standalone chm file
- A large amount of helpful demos in C#, VB, C++, and Delphi
Licensing and support
- Included annual dotConnect for DB2 Subscription with Priority Support
- Licensed royalty-free per developer, per team, or per site