Oracle announces general availability of tools for .NET

Date: 02 August 2006	Issue: One hundred and ninety seven (31/7/06 - 4/8/06) (ICT World)
Category: Technical & Product News

Oracle has announced the general availability of Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET, a free plug-in that aims to enable developers to use Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to develop and deploy Microsoft .NET Framework-based applications with Oracle Database 10g.

Oracle has also unveiled a release of Oracle Data Provider for .NET designed to support ADO.NET 2.0, Microsofts standard for data access.

Oracles support of Visual Studio 2005 and ADO.NET 2.0 aims to help developers to be more productive in building .NET applications and Web services with Oracle Database 10g.

Oracle Data Provider for .NET aims to help developers to access information from the database more efficiently. Specifically, Oracle says that they can take advantage of the scalability and security capabilities of Oracle Database 10g, such as application security context, clustering, and native Oracle data types such as LOBs and REF cursors.

Delivering deeper integration between the Oracle Database and the Windows platform is a priority, says Andy Mendelsohn, senior vice-president of database server technologies, Oracle.

Our continuing investment in these developer tools reinforces our commitment to .NET and enables .NET Framework-based developers to help to maximise the performance of their applications by exploiting the capabilities and power of the Oracle Database, he adds.