We would like our PR to be published at your site

[Dmitry Tsygankov]

Hello, we are registered at your web site as Devart company. (I can provide 
login and pass if you need it confirmation). We would like our company's 
press releases\news concerning MySql to be published at your web site, if 
possible. At   http://lists.mysql.com/win32, you say: "To post to the list, 
send email to win32@stripped". So, I'm sending you our press release 
we would like to be posted.

If it's possible, please respond.

Our Press release:


Extending Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL Support in ADO.NET Data Provider 
for MySQL

Devart has recently announced the release of dotConnect for MySQL, ADO.NET 
provider that offers Entity Framework support, LINQ to SQL support, and 
contains an ORM model designer for developing LINQ to SQL and EF models 
based on the MySQL database engine.




Entity Framework support in the provider is based on the two years' 
experience of working with this technology. It enables using server-specific 
features and database specific functions for Entity SQL.




Our LINQ to MySQL implementation shares similar interface with the one of 
Micrsoft Linq to SQL implementation and expands it by a number of options 
like error processing, LoadOption on the query level (for example, query can 
return child entites, if set appropriately).

Among the new features we have added expanded support for stored procedures 
and SqlMethods class for tuning SQL queries




With dotConnect for MySQL we provide our own designer for modeling and code 
generation for ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to SQL, Entity Developer. 
It can be distinguished by such features as extended naming rules, template 
based code generation, visualized and on-the-fly model schema validation, 
and full support of stored procedures.

Among the recent improvements, we have extended Entity Framework support, 
added support for Entity Framework ComplexType, all three types of 
inheritance, and storage model became fully editable, including easy-to-use 
editors for DefiningQuery and CommandText.




The provider's functionality was also improved by adding new properties to 
the MySqlConnection class. The Charset property allows to avoid using the 
Unicode mode to reduce net traffic. The PingInterval property serves for 
connection maintaining, as ping command is sent to server to prevent closing 
connection unilaterally.




We offer a free Express edition of dotConnect for MySQL.




The Single license starts from as little as $99.95, and you can always 
choose the edition that matches your needs best. To learn more, download 
trial and free editions, or order a license please visit Devart site:
www.devart.com/dotconnect/mysql/.


Please, feel free to download, try and write any comments and suggestions 
about our products!



===End of press release ===


Best regards,
Dmitry Tsygankov