dotConnect for Universal 5.1 new features

• .NET 8 compatibility
• Visual Studio 2022 version 17.9 Preview is supported
• The support for Microsoft Access 2016 database engine (Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.16.0) is added

dotConnect for Universal 5.0 new features:

• .NET Core is supported
• .NET 5, .NET 6, and .NET 7 compatibility
• The NuGet package 'Devart.Data.Universal.DB2', 'Devart.Data.Universal.Firebird', 'Devart.Data.Universal.MySql', 'Devart.Data.Universal.Odbc', 'Devart.Data.Universal.OleDb', 'Devart.Data.Universal.Oracle', 'Devart.Data.Universal.PostgreSql', 'Devart.Data.Universal.SQLite', and 'Devart.Data.Universal.SqlServer' with .NET Core compliant assemblies are uploaded to www.nuget.org
• Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 Preview is supported

dotConnect for Universal 4.1 new features:

• Visual Studio 2022 version 17.5 Preview is supported
• Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 Preview is supported
• Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7 Preview is supported

dotConnect for Universal 4.0 new features:

• Windows 11 is supported.
• Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2 is supported.
• Visual Studio 2022 version 17.3 Preview is supported.

dotConnect for Universal 3.80 new features:

• Visual Studio 2019 is supported
• Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 Preview 2.0 is supported
• PostgreSQL 13 is supported
• Deprecated design-time Synchronous API calls are no longer used with Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio 2017
• The integration with Visual Studio 2019 is improved: now the installation detects both 2019 Release and 2019 Preview versions
• The SendCallStack property is added to the Devart.Common.DbMonitor class for possibility to turn off resource-demanding logging of CallStack
• The Filter property is added to the Devart.Common.DbMonitor class for possibility to choose events being logged
• The Devart.Common.DbMonitor class is improved: now values of the DateTime parameters sent to the dbMonitor tool are supplemented with milliseconds
• The new command line option /disablegac that disables adding assemblies to GAC is added

dotConnect for Universal 3.70 new features:

• Visual Studio 2019 Release Candidate 4 is supported
• Visual Studio 2017 is supported
• The type of the Offset and Length properties of the ScriptProgressEventArgs class is changed from Int32 to Int64
• SSH connections are supported (PostgreSQL)
• PostgreSQL 11 is supported

dotConnect for Universal 3.60 new features:

• Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate 4 is supported
• Visual Studio 2015 is supported
• The support for Microsoft Access 2013 database is added
• The 'Do not install assemblies in the GAC' check box that allows disabling placing the provider assemblies to the GAC is added to the Install Wizard
• The behaviour is changed: the Devart.Data.MySql.MySqlException class from Devart.Data.Universal.MySql.dll is public now

dotConnect for Universal 3.50 new features:

• Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate is supported
• Visual Studio 2013 is supported
• The DateTime2 member is added to the UniDbType enumeration
• The Enterprise Library 6 support is added; all previous versions of Enterprise Library are no longer maintained
• The enableExpiredSessionAutoDeletion and expiredSessionAutoDeletionInterval options for deleting expired sessions are added to the session-state store provider definition in the web.config file
• The performance of the GetSchemaTable method of UniDataReader class for SQLite is improved
• The behaviour is changed: installation with the /VERYSILENT install parameter will uninstall the other version of the provider without any dialog box if it is installed
• The behaviour is changed: now several versions of the sqlite3.dll library (x86 and x64) are available with the installation package
• The behaviour is changed: the UniMonitor now hides information about the password connection string parameter
• The behaviour is changed: the GetSchemaTable method of UniDataReader returns information on whether a column is unique for SQLite only when the command was performed with CommandBehavior.KeyInfo

dotConnect for Universal 3.40 new features:

• Visual Studio 2013 Release Candidate is supported
• Visual Studio 2012 is supported
• The Validate Connection parameter of the connection string for the Devart providers is implemented
• Oracle 12c is supported

dotConnect for Universal 3.30 new features:

• Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate is supported
• The handling of empty options in the connection string is improved
• The behaviour is changed: the 'sender' parameter in MonitorEventHandler is a connection and the MonitorEventArgs.ExtraInfo property is filled with the connection string
• The behaviour is changed: the access modifier of the connectionString field of web provider classes is changed from private to protected

dotConnect for Universal 3.20 new features:

• Supported Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1
• Implemented integration with Visual Web Developer 2008 and 2010 Express editions
• DbTransactionBase class is added
• TransactionStateChanging and TransactionStateChanged events are added to the DbConnectionBase class
• The UniDbType.TimeStampTZ parameter type is implemented
• Added overloads for methods of DbDataReaderBase class with column name parameter
• Supported password salt in ASP.NET membership provider
• Improved Upgrade wizard
• Implemented capability of extending base functionality of ASP.NET providers
• Added support for Enterprise Library 5
• Implemented host option for current process in dbMonitor
• Added possibility for tracing the distributed transactions in DBMonitor
• Added BeginTransaction value to the MonitorEventType enum
• Implemented the DbMonitor.EventQueueLimit property which allows to set the maximal allowed number of messages waiting for being processed by the dbMonitor application
• The "Use schema name" check box is added to DataSet Wizard
• Changed behaviour: setting the DbDataTable.Connection property sets the InsertCommand.Connection, UpdateCommand.Connection, and DeleteCommand.Connection properties
• Changed behaviour: when clearing the pool, the number of connections specified in 'Min Pool Size' is never removed
• Changed the primary key of the aspnet_sessions table for ASP.NET Web providers (the ApplicationName column added)
• Changed behaviour: Devart.Data.Oracle.OracleException is public now

dotConnect for Universal 3.10 new features:

• Supported Visual Studio 2010
• Install Wizard improved (ability to automatically uninstall previous version added)
• Added possibility to avoid connecting to dbMonitor.exe when using DbMonitor ancestors

dotConnect for Universal 3.00 new features:

• New dotConnect providers supported
• New bundled providers with advanced connectivity options, such as http tunneling, ssl and so on added
• SQLite provider added
• Support for Visual Studio 2008 added
• Support for Visual Studio 2010 Beta added
• Server Explorer integration enhanced
• Mobile versions no longer need dotConnect providers installed

dotConnect for Universal 2.10 new features:

• New assemblies for bundled providers

dotConnect for Universal 2.05 new features:

• Windows Vista support added

dotConnect for Universal 2.00 new features:

• .NET Framework 2.0 support added
• Visual Studio 2005 support added
• Added Professional edition with bundled data providers for Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Support for .NET Compact Framework added
• ASP.NET 2.0 providers added: Membership Provider, Profile Provider, Role Provider, Session State Provider
• Implemented advanced integration with Visual Studio 2005, including Server Explorer, Data Source wizard, TableAdapter configuration
• Dataset Wizard added
• Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block support added
• The Base-Class-Based provider model used

Provider-specific types infrastructure

• UniDbType enumeration added
• UniBlob class added
• UniCursor class added
• UniDecimal class added

UniSQL (server-independent query language) features

• Conditional macro expressions as UniMacros class
• Universal support for literals and identifiers
• Universal quoting
• Conditional inclusion of SQL clauses
• Function mapping
• Unified OUTER JOIN syntax

Other features

• Borland Delphi 2006 support added
• Connection pooling functionality added
• Metadata schemas support added

dotConnect for Universal 1.00.6 new features

• Support for Borland Delphi 2005 added
• Publisher policy file added for versions compatibility
• Bug with quoted server object names fixed
• Bug with missing methods fixed
• Bug with code serialization at design-time fixed
• Bug with UniCommandBuilder.RefreshSchema fixed

dotConnect for Universal 1.00.5 new features

• Bug with Currency DbType fixed

dotConnect for Universal 1.00.4 new features

• Bug with UniCommandBuilder fixed

dotConnect for Universal 1.00.3 new features

• Documentation updated

dotConnect for Universal 1.00.2 new features

• Bug with set UniCommand.Connection fixed
• Parsing parameters bug fixed

dotConnect for Universal 1.00.1 new features

• Bug with UniTransaction fixed
• Support for MS Access added