General usability

• Fully compliant with ADO.NET
• Highly usable design-time support
• Easy to deploy: the native libraries come with the installer and the NuGet package

Network and connectivity

• Connections by host or by a mongodb:// or mongodb+srv:// URI, including connections to replica sets and sharded clusters
• TLS connections
• Both connected and disconnected data access models

Compatibility

• MongoDB 3.6 and later
• Support for both x64 and x86 architectures (Windows only)
• .NET 5-11, .NET Core 2.x and 3.x, and .NET Standard 2.0 support
• .NET Framework 4.5.1-4.8 support
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2026, 2022, 2019, and 2017 support

MongoDB technology support

• SQL over collections: SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, joins, and SQLite functions; simple conditions are passed to MongoDB as filters
• Native MongoDB commands in JSON, including the aggregate command
• Embedded documents and arrays as dotted columns or as a single JSON column
• All current BSON types; Decimal128 as string, decimal, or double; Guid and DateTimeOffset in the formats used by other MongoDB drivers
• MongoDB transactions on replica sets and sharded clusters
• MongoDBDump component to back up and restore a collection
• MongoDBLoader component for bulk inserts

ADO.NET technology support

• Extended metadata information retrieval
• Advanced CommandBuilder component
• Enhanced pooling control through connection string
• Connection string builder
• Provider factory
• Asynchronous command execution, command timeouts, and cancellation
• TransactionScope support
• Named and positional parameters

Entity Framework Core

• Entity Framework Core 3.1, 8, 9, 10, and 11 support
• LINQ queries, inserts, updates, and deletes, including ExecuteUpdate and ExecuteDelete
• Embedded documents as owned types and collections of scalar values, with LINQ queries over them
• Database-first scaffolding

Extended data access technologies

• MongoDBDataTable component for manipulating individual collections or query results

WinForms-specific features

• Flexible data binding with the DataLink component
• InterForm technology for cross-form component cooperation

Script execution

• Script execution with the MongoDBScript component

SQL execution monitoring

• MongoDBMonitor component and the dbMonitor utility

Design-time enhancements

• Automatic component registration in the toolbox
• Visual Studio integration: Server Explorer, Data Source Wizard, and TableAdapter configuration
• DataSet Wizard, DataSet Manager, and DataSet Editor
• Design-time component and property editors

Product clarity

• Documentation integrated into Visual Studio and available as a CHM file

Licensing and support

• Annual subscription with Priority Support included
• Licensed royalty-free per developer, per team, or per site