PostgreSQLDirect .NET Features

General usability

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

Network and connectivity

  • Doesn't require PostgreSQL client library and uses PostgreSQL protocol directly
  • Both connected and disconnected data access models
  • Unicode connections

Compatibility

  • Full support of the latest versions of PostgreSQL
  • Full support for x64 architecture [New]
  • .NET Compact Framework support
  • Mono Framework support
  • Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2008 support [Improved]
  • Borland Delphi 8, 2005, 2006, Turbos support
  • SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Solutions support [Improved]

PostgreSQL technology support

  • All PostgreSQL data types support, including Composite types
  • Stored procedures support
  • Returning result sets from stored procedures
  • PgSqlDump component to store a database or its parts as a script and then restore it
  • PgSqlLoader component for fast loading data
  • Fill DataSet with multiple query

Performance

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

ADO.NET technology support

  • Full support for ADO.NET Entity Framework [New]
  • Server enumeration
  • Batch update support
  • Extended metadata information retrieval
  • Advanced CommandBuilder component with automatic refresh SQL [Improved]
  • Enhanced pooling control through connection string
  • Connection string builder
  • Provider factory for generating key data access classes
  • Asynchronous command execution
  • Provider-specific types support [Improved]
  • Password change API
  • Database Change Notification Support
  • Possibility to retrieve OID values

Extended data access technologies and functionality

  • Powerful PgSqlDataTable 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
  • Ability to refresh individual records in PgSqlDataTable component
  • 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
  • PgSqlDataAdapter.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 provider, Role provider, Session State provider, Profile provider
  • PgSqlDataSource web component
  • PgSqlCacheDependency component to control Cache item dependencies in ASP.NET applications

Script execution

  • Advanced script execution features with PgSqlScript 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 PgSqlMonitor 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 2005/2008, including Server Explorer, Data Source wizard, TableAdapter configuration, Query Builder and configuring web component PgSqlDataSource
  • DataSet Wizard to create and edit typed PostgreSQL-oriented datasets
  • DataSet Manager to list and bind datasets in the project [Improved]
  • DataSet Editor to edit dataset contents
  • Advanced design-time component and property editors
  • IntelliSense descriptions for PostgreSQLDirect .NET classes
  • Easy migration from ODBC and OLE DB .NET Data Providers with Migration Wizard
  • 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 .NET and Borland Delphi
  • Integration with Visual Studio and MSDN help collections
  • Documentation available as a standalone chm file
  • A large amount of helpful demos in C#, VB, C++, and Delphi [Improved]

Licensing and support

  • Included annual PostgreSQLDirect .NET Subscription with Priority Support
  • Licensed royalty-free per developer, per team, or per site