From: Date: June 2 2009 2:40pm Subject: We would like our PR to be published at your site List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/win32/19015 Message-Id: <001301c9e37f$501d0280$b000a8c0@datasoft.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="koi8-r"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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