LinqConnect for Metro is a fast and easy to use ORM solution, developed closely to the Microsoft LINQ to SQL technology, and supporting Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL. With it you can develop Metro style applications with true ORM support for database access. Moreover, LinqConnect allows using ADO.NET interfaces for working with data, which were not available for Metro before. And in addition, it offers its own embedded database engine based on SQLite to store data in isolated storage using a fully functional local relational database. It provides a powerful model designer tool with complete integration to Visual Studio - Entity Developer.
Key Features
Direct connection to Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases
Metro itself does not provide the way to access data from database servers directly, but with LinqConnect you can use direct database connection without a separate data access layer. It allows you to reduce network traffic and eliminates performance overhead for data serialization and deserialization.
Embedded database engine
Standard Metro approach of storing local data in an XML format may be inefficient and not suitable if one needs to store a significant amount of data locally. If you need a reliable and convenient storage for local data, LinqConnect suits perfectly for these needs. It offers you embedded database functionality, allowing you to store data on the client side in an embedded database. LinqConnect for Metro contains the ready-to-use SQLite embedded database engine from C# SQLite project. You don't need to install any additional software, just use LinqConnect to work with a fully-functional relational database. Storing data in a relational database offers you a number of advantages - such as transactions, constraints, indexes, and generally provides higher performance and lesser file size. Using relational transactional database also increases reliability of local data storage. Small and efficient, and at the same time powerful SQLite database engine makes LinqConnect a perfect choice to store data locally in Metro applications.
LINQ data access
LinqConnect brings you the possibility to use LINQ in Metro applications, which grants you such features as compile-time validation, IntelliSense, and your IDE's debugging mechanisms when building and testing your queries, etc.
ADO.NET data access
Though Metro does not provide ADO.NET data access, with LinqConnect you can use ADO.NET in Metro applications. With LinqConnect you can employ the flexibility and performance of the native database SQL. LinqConnect Metro ADO.NET data access allows you to move existing data access code to this platform, providing wider capabilities for porting desktop applications to Metro.
Compatibility
LinqConnect uses classes and interfaces completely compatible with LINQ to SQL, while extending its functionality, so LINQ to SQL developer can easily get started to work with LinqConnect.
Store Verification
LinqConect passes store verification. Our embedded database engine is 100% managed, so you don't need to recompile your applications for different platforms (ARM and PC).
Actively developed technology
Unlike LINQ to SQL, LinqConnect is an actively developed ORM solution. We keep on improving our product and adding new features based on user feedback.
Professional development team
LinqConnect is developed by a company having more than eight-year experience on the development of the data access technologies in .NET.
Visual model designer
With Entity Developer - a visual model designer, supplied with LinqConnect - all the model creating and editing tasks can be performed in convenient GUI, thus greatly reducing the development and learning time.
Performance
High enough without lots of efforts on optimizing your code.
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