General usability

• Real RAD for database applications
• Fully compliant with ADO.NET
• 100% managed code
• Highly usable design time support
• Easy to deploy

Compatibility

• Full support of the latest versions of SQLite
• Support for both x64 and x86 architecture
• .NET 7 support
• .NET 6 support
• .NET 5 support
• .NET Core 3.x, 2.x, and 1.x support
• .NET Standard 2.1, 2.0 1.6, 1.5, 1.4, and 1.3 support
• .NET Frameworks 4.8, 4.7, 4.6, 4.5, 4.0, 3.5, 2.0 support
• Mono Framework support
• 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 - 2023 Business Intelligence Solutions support

SQLite technology support

• All SQLite data types support
• User-defined functions support
• SQLiteDump component to store a database or its parts as a script and then restore it
• The CEROD and SEE extensions support
• Ability to enable extensions with the EnableLoadExtension connection string parameters

Performance

• High overall performance
• Intelligent fetch block size control
• Advanced connection pooling
• High performance batch processing

ADO.NET technology support

• Entity Framework 1, 4.0, 4.5, 5, and 6.4.4 support
• Entity Framework Core 1.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5, 6, and 7 support
• LINQ to SQLite support
• 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
• 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
• Visual model creation and code generation with Entity Developer
  • Update Model From Database functionality for Entity Developer[New]
  • Update To Database with Mapping Synchronization functionality for Entity Developer[New]

LinqConnect (formerly known as LINQ to SQLite)

• Easy to use
• High performance
• Interchangeable with Microsoft LINQ to SQL
• Plain CLR classes used (no need to use a common base class)
• Full CRUD (Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete) support
• Ability to execute DML statements in batches on SubmitChanges [New]
• Complex type support
• PLINQ support (connection manager redesigned for thread safety) [New]
• Support for different configurable algorithms for primary key generation
• Inheritance mapping support (Table Per Hierarchy and Table Per Type) [New]
• Support of Visual Studio Debugger Visualizer for the DataQuery objects [New]
• ASP.NET Dynamic Data support with ASP.NET Dynamic Data project templates [New]
• Automatic configurable compiled query caching
• Change tracking support
• Object data caching
• Data binding support
• Wide support for LINQ capabilities
• Wide support for server data types
• Load on demand (lazy load)
• Database transactions support
• Server-independent interface
• Visual model creation and code generation with Entity Developer
  • Update Model From Database functionality for Entity Developer[New]
  • Update To Database with Mapping Synchronization functionality for Entity Developer[New]
• Illustrated tutorial to get started with LinqConnect in 5 minutes

Extended data access technologies and functionality

• Powerful SQLiteDataTable 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
• SQLiteDataAdapter.Fill method with sequential fetch support
• Ability to defer fetching of some columns in a resultset
• Named parameters 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 data providers: Membership, Role, Session State, Profile, Personalization, Site Map, Web Event
• SQLiteDataSource web component
• SQLiteCacheDependency component to control Cache item dependencies in ASP.NET applications

Script execution

• Advanced script execution features with SQLiteScript 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 SQLiteMonitor 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 SQLiteDataSource
• DataSet Wizard to create and edit typed SQLite-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 SQLite 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# and VB

Licensing and support

• Included annual dotConnect for SQLite Subscription with Priority Support
• Licensed royalty-free per developer, per team, or per site