LinqConnect Editions
LinqConnect is available in six editions: Professional, Standard, for Silverlight, for Windows Phone, for Metro, and Express.
LinqConnect Professional includes Express editions of dotConnect for Oracle, dotConnect for MySQL , dotConnect for PostgreSQL , and dotConnect for SQLite and supports corresponding databases, and Microsoft SQL Server.
LinqConnect Standard uses SqlClient to connect to Microsoft SQL Server. Other databases are not supported.
LinqConnect for Silverlight allows you to develop applications for Silverlight 4 and higher. LinqConnect for Windows Phone allows you to develop Windows Phone applications. LinqConnect for Metro allows you to develop Window Store apps. These editions support connecting to Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL over TCP/IP and offer an embedded database engine based on SQLite to store data in a local database. With these editions you can use both LINQ and ADO.NET data access to these databases. Read more about LinqConnect for Silverlight , LinqConnect for Windows Phone , and LinqConnect for Metro .
The Express Edition is a free limited version of LinqConnect. The Express Edition does not allow customization of code templates and is limited to 10 entities in the project. It supports Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
LinqConnect Editions
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| Visual schema modelling |
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| Model-First approach support |
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| Database-First approach support |
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| Predefined templates |
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| Custom templates |
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| dbMonitor support |
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| SQL Server support |
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| Oracle support |
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| MySQL support |
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| PostgreSQL support |
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| SQLite support |
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| Unlimited number of entities in model |
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| .NET Framework support |
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| .NET Core support |
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| Windows Store Apps support |
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| Windows Phone support |
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| Silverlight support |
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| Price | $249.95 | $149.95 | $199.95 | $199.95 | $199.95 | Free |