After two years of hard work we released v3.0 of LLBLGen Pro today! V3.0 comes with a completely new designer which has been developed from the ground up for .NET 3.5 and higher. Below I'll briefly mention some highlights of this new release:
- Entity Framework (v1 & v4) support
- NHibernate support (hbm.xml mappings & FluentNHibernate mappings)
- Linq to SQL support
- Allows both Model first and Database first development, or a mixture of both
- .NET 4.0 support
- Model views
- Grouping of project elements
- Linq-based project search
- Value Type (DDD) support
- Multiple Database types in single project
- XML based project file
- Integrated template editor
- Relational Model Data management
- Flexible attribute declaration for code generation, no more buddy classes needed
- Fine-grained project validation
- Update / Create DDL SQL scripts
- Fast Text-DSL based Quick mode
- Powerful text-DSL based Quick Model functionality
- Per target framework extensible settings framework
- much much more...
Of course we still support our own O/R mapper framework: LLBLGen Pro v3.0 Runtime framework as well, which was updated with some minor features and was upgraded to use the DbProviderFactory system. Please watch the videos of the designer (more to come very soon!) to see some aspects of the new designer in action.
The full version comes with Algorithmia in sourcecode as well. Algorithmia is an algorithm library written for .NET 3.5 which powers the heart of the designer with a fine-grained undo/redo command framework, graph classes and much more.
I'd like to thank all beta-testers, our support team and others who have helped us with this massive release. :)