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