Release history

Version 4.6 — October 10, 2012

• Multiple databases/schemas mapping support
• SQLite provider
• Reworked key generator API
• Improved startup performance
• Single transaction upgrade

Version 4.5 — April 13, 2012

• Access control/Security extension
• Security
• Reprocessing
• Bulk pperations
• LINQPad driver
• MySQL provider
• Firebird provider
• JustOneDB provider

Version 4.4.2 — February 27, 2012

• Migration to PostSharp 2.1
• Performance and memory consumption optimization
• New Project upgrade tool

Version 4.4.1 — December 19, 2011

• Basic support for SqlGeometry & SqlGeography types, spatial index support in SQL Server driver.
• Precise control over reference properties indexing
• Partial (filtered) indexes based on lambda syntax
• Сontrol over primary and regular index clustering
• Creating and registering LINQ extensions made more user-friendly
• Attributes overriding

Version 4.4 — February 11, 2011

• 'Unit of work' pattern support
• Visual Basic
• F#
• Localization
• PostgreSQL 9.0 support
• Xtensive.Practices project
• Reduced number of assemblies
• Domain, Session, Query, Prefetch API simplification
• Encrypted connection strings
• And much more

Version 4.3.7 — January 29, 2011

• PostgreSQL 9.0 support
• Encrypted connection strings
• UUID datatype for PostgreSQL 8.3 and higher
• Persistent interfaces and association attributes fix
• Explicit rows ordering fix
• Nested transactions in MS SQL Server CE fix
• Constraints validation fix

Version 4.3.6 — December 9, 2010

• Visual Basic support
• EntitySet now implements IValidationAware
• SessionOptions.ReadRemovedObjects is added
• Several bugs are fixed in LINQ translator, Upgrade, PostgreSQL & MS SQLServer providers

Version 4.3.5 — September 15, 2010

• Product reference integrates with Visual Studio 2010 help system
• Operations framework is redesigned to track and replay the operations in three modes
• Session-level events were moved to Session.Events member (breaking change)
• DisconnectedState is extended
• Schema upgrade / mapping layer now supports FieldAttribute.DefaultValue and NullableOnUpgrade properties
• Duration of domain building process was significantly reduced
• VersionAttribute was made more flexible
• Several bugs were fixed in LINQ translator
• Schema upgrade layer made more stable

Version 4.3 — July 12, 2010

• .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010 support
• v4.3 uses PostSharp 2 instead of PostSharp 1
• New Tuples engine that relies on generics instead of Tuple and TupleDescriptor classes generation with System.Reflection.Emit
• Domain.Build() also works nearly twice faster
• DataObjects.Net became commercial

Version 4.2 — March 2, 2010

• Manual
• Unified versioning support
• DisconnectedState
• MS SQL Azure, Oracle, MS SQL Server CE providers
• Full-text support for MS SQL Server & PostreSQL
• Object-to-Object mapper
• Future queries, super batching, prefetching
• Legacy domain upgrade mode

Version 4.1 — November, 2009

• Persistent interfaces
• Validation
• Integrated PostSharp
• Integrated logging
• Support for local collection in LINQ queries

Version 4.0.5 — August 15, 2009

• Performance-related updates
• Better ASP.NET support
• Domain modules
• Lot’s of fixes

Version 4.0 — June 9, 2009

• Initial release of DataObjects.Net 4

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Previous versions

Version 3.9.5 — January 7, 2007

• Query Profiler and query profiling API
• DataSource control and BindingSource component
• Updated BindingManager component
• Validation service
• Access validators
• Generators (table-based) are now used to provide new ID values

Version 3.9.1 — October 30, 2006

• Native & emulated partitioning is added. Range, List, Hash & Object types are supported.
• Key is added, it is intended to substitute long ID property.

Version 3.8.5 — March 11, 2006

• varchar(max)/varbinary(max) database column types
• Generic methods support

Version 3.8 — December 3, 2005

• Full support of .Net Framework 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005
• Full-text indexing improvements
• Offline layer improvements
• Indexing and unique constraints full support

Version 3.7 — October 18, 2005

• .NET Framework 2.0 Generics & Nullable types support
• UniqueValidator is added

Version 3.6 — September 1, 2005

• GlobalCache improvements
• Transactions performance counters

Version 3.5 — July 15, 2005

• MethodCallDescriptors instead of UpdateActions
• BusinessMethod, OfflineBusinessMethod attributes

Version 3.4 — June 30, 2005

• .NET Framework 2.0 support
• Parallel database schema extraction & domain model build process
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Yukon) support
• Microsoft Access driver is added
• Mono support

Version 3.3 — April 28, 2005

• Offline layer (disconnected ObjectSets)
• DotLucene full-text search engine
• TrackingSet
• IQueryEventWatcher interface

Version 3.0 — December 31, 2004

• Firebird database driver
• Versionizing mode
• Domain.GlobalCache
• Session events

Version 2.6 — November 1, 2004

• DataObjects.NET.UI.BindingManager for ASP.NET\WindowsForms controls
• Delegate properties are fully supported
• Clustered indexes
• Full-text indexing layer was seriously improved
• Subqueries are now supported in Query

Version 2.5 — September 28, 2004

• Performance improvements
• Paging support in collections
• DataObjects.NET.Data.Adapter is introduced
• Paired ValueTypeCollections
• Optimized instance removal process
• Unified Preloading is added

Version 2.3 — July 16, 2004

• Optimized proxy assembly compilation and loading
• Query\SqlQuery improvements
• Foreign keys support
• Property validation, correction, type modification & storage value modification support

Version 2.2 — May 3, 2004

• Automatic indexing of reference fields
• Support for collations in Sql Server
• Performance improvements
• ValueTypes, ValueTypeCollections support
• OQL improvements: joins, type casts, collection-based queries
• Partial loading in DataObjectCollection

Version 2.0 — December 29, 2003

• Built-in security system
• Persistent interfaces support
• Runtime services
• Improved full-text indexing and search
• Improved serialization layer
• Samples were seriously updated

Version 1.8.1 — November 25, 2003

• Automatic transactions are improved
• SessionBoundObject, TransactionalObject are introduced

Version 1.7.1 — November 18, 2003

• Delayed updates
• QueryResult improvement
• Optimized caching

Version 1.6.1 — October 31, 2003

• DataServices
• DoPetShop sample

Version 1.5.1 — October 21, 2003

• Oracle support
• OQL query engine
• Serialization support is significantly improved

Version 1.3.1 — September 24, 2003

• Distributed transactions
• Serialization support

Version 1.2 — September 11, 2003

• Automatic transactions
• Reprocessing on Deadlock exceptions
• Nested transactions

Version 1.1 — September 2, 2003

• SAP DB support
• New ASP.NET sample is added

Version 1.0 — July 15, 2003
After several months of hard work we released the first version of DataObjects.Net