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 PostgreSQLDirect .NET Features

  • General usability

    • Direct access to server data
    • Real RAD for database applications
    • Fully compliant with ADO.NET
    • 100% managed code
    • Highly usable design time support
    • Easy to deploy

  • Network and connectivity

    • Doesn't require PostgreSQL client library and uses PostgreSQL protocol directly
    • Both connected and disconnected data access models
    • Unicode connections

  • Compatibility

    • Full support of the latest versions of PostgreSQL
    • Full support for x64 architecture [New]
    • .NET Compact Framework support
    • Mono Framework support
    • Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2008 support [Improved]
    • Borland Delphi 8, 2005, 2006, Turbos support
    • SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Solutions support [Improved]

  • PostgreSQL technology support

    • All PostgreSQL data types support, including Composite types
    • Stored procedures support
    • Returning result sets from stored procedures
    • PgSqlDump component to store a database or its parts as a script and then restore it
    • PgSqlLoader component for fast loading data
    • Fill DataSet with multiple query

  • Performance

    • High overall performance
    • Intelligent fetch block size control
    • Advanced connection pooling
    • High performance batch processing

  • ADO.NET technology support

    • Full support for ADO.NET Entity Framework [New]
    • Server enumeration
    • Batch update support
    • Extended metadata information retrieval
    • Advanced CommandBuilder component with automatic refresh SQL [Improved]
    • Enhanced pooling control through connection string
    • Connection string builder
    • Provider factory for generating key data access classes
    • Asynchronous command execution
    • Provider-specific types support [Improved]
    • Password change API
    • Database Change Notification Support
    • Possibility to retrieve OID values

  • Extended data access technologies and functionality

    • Powerful PgSqlDataTable component for manipulating individual tables or query result
    • NonBlocking mode allows fetching data asynchronously in the background
    • On-demand data fetch for data-bound controls
    • Paginal access to query result
    • Server side master-detail relation based on queries
    • Ability to refresh individual records in PgSqlDataTable component
    • Support for Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block (DAAB)
    • Object-oriented building of SELECT statements
    • Extended warning and error information retrieval
    • Extended interface for processing execution exceptions
    • PgSqlDataAdapter.Fill method with sequential fetch support
    • Ability to defer fetching of some columns in a resultset
    • Named parameters support

  • WinForms-specific features

    • Flexible data binding with DataLink component
    • InterForm technology for cross-form components cooperation
    • Global position synchronization within a data source

  • ASP.NET-specific features

    • ASP.NET data providers: Membership provider, Role provider, Session State provider, Profile provider
    • PgSqlDataSource web component
    • PgSqlCacheDependency component to control Cache item dependencies in ASP.NET applications

  • Script execution

    • Advanced script execution features with PgSqlScript component
    • Support for executing individual statements in scripts
    • Support for executing huge scripts stored in files with dynamic loading

  • SQL execution monitoring

    • Extended SQL tracing capabilities with PgSqlMonitor component
    • Support for DBMonitor utility for advanced tracing analysis and control
    • Per-component SQL tracing
    • Optional log output to IDE toolwindows

  • Design-time enhancements

    • Automatic component registration in toolbox
    • Advanced integration with Visual Studio 2005/2008, including Server Explorer, Data Source wizard, TableAdapter configuration, Query Builder and configuring web component PgSqlDataSource
    • DataSet Wizard to create and edit typed PostgreSQL-oriented datasets
    • DataSet Manager to list and bind datasets in the project [Improved]
    • DataSet Editor to edit dataset contents
    • Advanced design-time component and property editors
    • IntelliSense descriptions for PostgreSQLDirect .NET classes
    • Easy migration from ODBC and OLE DB .NET Data Providers with Migration Wizard
    • Syntax highlighting in design-time editors
    • TableMappings editor
    • Convenient instant data preview and management in design time

  • Product clarity

    • Complete documentation sets integrated into Visual Studio .NET and Borland Delphi
    • Integration with Visual Studio and MSDN help collections
    • Documentation available as a standalone chm file
    • A large amount of helpful demos in C#, VB, C++, and Delphi [Improved]

  • Licensing and support

    • Included annual PostgreSQLDirect .NET Subscription with Priority Support
    • Licensed royalty-free per developer, per team, or per site



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