Advanced Visual Studio Integration
dotConnect providers tightly integrate with design-time features of Visual Studio. You can use them to create Server Explorer connections and browse data source tables, take advantage of DataSet Designer, Data Source wizard, Query Builder, TableAdapter configuration, use Preview Data capability, etc.
RAD Approach
dotConnect providers make application development faster because they allow to quickly configure the data access layer at design-time. They offer a number of visual GUI tools and wizards that increase your productivity. dotConnect components have advanced visual component editors to simplify their tweaking.
SQL Eecution Monitoring
dotConnect providers have a dedicated free tool for monitoring SQL execution and other data access events – dbMonitor. dbMonitor can be used for monitoring any kind of applications – desktop, ASP.NET and windows services and even allows tracing the applications remotely.
Demo Projects
dotConnect providers go with a number of demo project, illustrating the use of different technologies and classes with dotConnect and how to use dotConnect providers in different kinds of projects. They will quickly introduce you to using dotConnect components in your data-related applications.
Helpful Documentation
Documentation for dotConnect providers can help you get started with the providers quickly. It is integrated with Visual Studio help collection when a provider is installed and is available separately both as a downloadable CHM file and online on our website.
Fast Support
If you have any questions on our providers you can contact our support team, and we will answer all of your questions. We have a two-business-day response policy, but usually you will get a reply much faster. We provide support by e-mail or on our forum.
Free Updates for 1 Year
When you purchase any of dotConnect providers you get an annual subscription for free, and can freely download all the product updates for 1 year since the purchase.
Royalty Free
dotConnect providers are royalty-free – if you have a license, you won’t need to pay any additional fee for deploying or distributing your software to end users.
