Npgsql2 Final Released!!

Hi, all!

The Npgsql Development Team is proud to announce the Npgsql2 RTM!

Npgsql is a .Net Data provider written 100% in C# which allows .net
programs to talk to postgresql backends. Npgsql is licensed under BSD.
More info can be obtained from http://www.npgsql.org

After almost two years of development since Npgsql 1.0, Npgsql 2
brings new features and support for newer versions of .Net.

Although externally Npgsql2 doesn't seem very different of Npgsql1
regarding features, internally Npgsql2 had a lot of improvements which
represents a much more stable product, more bugs fixed and many
implemented methods. It is strongly advised that current users update
from Npgsql1 to Npgsql2.

Main features are:

Support for .Net 2.0 and 3.5

Josh Cooley did a great job and added support for EntityFramework.

Npgsql2 now doesn't read all table contents before returning control
to user code. This makes Npgsql much more memory efficient when
dealing with large tables. Thanks Jon Hanna for this.
Check User Manual for more info about that and how to revert to old
behavior of loading all data if you need it.

Thanks to Daniel Nauck, Npgsql now have support for ASP.Net providers.
You can visit Daniel project page at:
http://dev.nauck-it.de/aspsqlprovider/

You can see full changelog and release notes here:
http://pgfoundry.org/frs/shownotes.php?release_id=1230

You can dowload it from here: http://downloads.npgsql.org

For instructions about how to use NpgsqlFactory, check out our User Manual:
http://manual.npgsql.org

Please, give it a try and let us know if you have any problems.
Check out our forums: http://forums.npgsql.org

UUID datatype and COPY IN/OUT support added to cvs

Hi all! It was just added support to uuid datatype in cvs head. This type will be available in next Postgresql release 8.3. Thanks to David Bachmann for his patch! You can get more info about this patch in this mailing list post . Also was added support for copy in and copy out operations. Now, users can provide streams which can be copied directly to and from Postgresql tables! Thanks to Kalle Hallivuori for providing a patch! Thanks to Truviso for giving support to Kalle. More info about that including a demo and ready to use compiled Npgsql.dll versions can be found here . That's it! As soon as we get more features added, I will post info about them here. Stay tuned! :)

Using Entity Framework 6 with Npgsql 2.1.0

UPDATE (2014-05-19): Marek Beneš noticed a problem in the default connection factory config. It is fixed now. Thanks, Marek! UPDATE (2014-02-20): I created a new post explaining how to get Npgsql 2.1.0. Although this post is about EF 6, I'd like to talk about our current situation to support both EF 6 and EF4.x which explain why there are some subtle changes between EF 4.x and EF 6.x App.config settings. Support for EF versions 4.x and 6.x Sometime after we started to work on Npgsql 2.1.0, we started to add code to support EF6 and decided to reorganize our Entity Framework support code. Shay created a pull request to organize this change and isolate the EF code out of core Npgsql code. The result was the creation of two separated assemblies: Npgsql.EntityFramework.dll for EF6 and above; Npgsql.EntityFrameworkLegacy.dll for EF4.x. Only when using Npgsql with EF6 you will need to reference Npgsql.EntityFramework.dll assembly. This is needed because the EF

Initial EF-6 support added to Npgsql

In my last post , I said there is a pull request by Pēteris Ņikiforovs to add support for EF-6 to Npgsql. Yesterday, I merged this pull request to the master branch of Npgsql . With this merge, Npgsql has officially initial support for EF-6! How to compile For now, in order to compile Npgsql to use EF-6, you have to open the solution file NpgsqlEF6.sln. Later, as suggested by Pēteris Ņikiforovs , the idea is that we create a new configuration inside main project solution instead of maintain 2 separated projects. Another thing you will need to compile Npgsql is the latest release of EntityFramework assembly through NuGet: PM> Install-Package EntityFramework -Pre That's it! Now you will be able to play with Npgsql and EF-6. Check out my previous post about how to use Npgsql with EntityFramework. I'd like to thank Pēteris Ņikiforovs for his patch. And maxbundchen for his patch about Open/Close events needed for EF-6. Please, give it a try and let me know how it

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