Entity Developer Express and Flamory

Flamory provides the following integration abilities:

Create and use window snapshots for Entity Developer Express
Take and edit Entity Developer Express screenshots
Automatically copy selected text from Entity Developer Express and save it to Flamory history

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Screenshot editing

Flamory helps you capture and store screenshots from Entity Developer Express by pressing a single hotkey. It will be saved to a history, so you can continue doing your tasks without interruptions. Later, you can edit the screenshot: crop, resize, add labels and highlights. After that, you can paste the screenshot into any other document or e-mail message.

Here is how Entity Developer Express snapshot can look like. Get Flamory and try this on your computer.

Entity Developer Express - Flamory bookmarks and screenshots

Application info

Entity Developer is a free powerful modeling and code generation tool for ADO.NET Entity Framework, NHibernate, and LINQ to SQL. You can use Model-First and Database-First approaches to design your model and generate C# or Visual Basic .NET code for it. It introduces new approaches for designing ORM models, boosts productivity, and facilitates the development of database applications.

Entity Developer Express for SQL Server is a free limited version of Entity Developer for SQL Server. The Express Edition does not allow customization of code templates and is limited to 10 entities in the project.

Visual ORM Model Designer with Code Generation

Entity Developer allows you to create and edit Entity Framework, NHibernate, and LINQ to SQL models visually, without typing a line of XML code. It supports editing storage part in GUI and creating all kinds of mapping, such as table splitting, mapping entity to several tables, complex types, inheritance hierarchies, creating entities from SELECT statements and methods from SQL code, etc. Code generation is very flexible due to using T4-like templates.

Integration to Visual Studio

Entity Developer seamlessly integrates with Visual Studio 2008 and 2010. You may edit your Entity Developer models as Visual Studio documents, in the same way as EDM models.

Model-First Approach

Model First approach implementation in Entity Developer offers automatic synchronization of mapping and storage part with the conceptual part of the model and easy to use wizards for synchronizing database with the model.

Updating Model from Database

Entity Developer for SQL Server provides possibility to synchronize your entity model with database with the help of Update from Database Wizard. It tries to preserve manual changes to the model where possible.

Data Viewing/Editing

Entity Developer allows executing HQL, LINQ, or Entity SQL queries against the model, and viewing/editing data.

Integration level may vary depending on the application version and other factors. Make sure that user are using recent version of Entity Developer Express. Please contact us if you have different integration experience.