Oracle Developer Tools
Oracle has recently released a beta version of ODT. While betas can be a pain in the rear at time I felt it was work the effort to check this out. I ran into problems from the begining as soon as I fired up Visual Studio .NET. I simply can not get ODT to load properly.
Package 'Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET' has failed to load properly ( GUID = {D601BB95-E404-4A8E-9F24-5C1A462426CE} ). Please contact package vendor for assistance. Application restart is recommended, due to possible environment corruption. Would you like to disable loading this package in the future? You may use 'devenv /resetskippkgs' to re-enable package loading.
I am not sure why this is occuring so I have post this issue at the Oracle ODP.NET forums. In the meatime if anyone has experience this and was able to resolve the issue I would love to hear from you.
I am really looking forward to getting this release working! Take a look at the features:
Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET Beta Features
- Visual Studio 2005 integration with Server Explorer, Data Sources Window, Dataset Designer, TableAdapter Configuration Wizard and more
- Improved ASP.NET web developer support
- Oracle Database script project to provide source control of Oracle scripts
- SQL script editor
- Built in support for executing SQL*Plus scripts
- Explain plan support
- Integration with Query Designer
- New designer for granting/revoking privileges on schema objects
- User-Defined Types: Create, explore and modify UDTs; custom class code generation for .NET applications
- Data Window and Query Window enhancements
Oracle Data Provider for .NET Beta Features
- Instant Client Support: Smaller ODP.NET client installation
- User-Defined Types: Map Oracle objects and collections to .NET custom types and support REFs to object types
- Process Database Down Events: ODP.NET automatically frees connections of a downed Data Guard instance
- Windows-Authenticated User Connection Pooling: Windows-authenticated connections can now be pooled
- Connection Pool Performance Counters: Monitor connection pool status
Oracle Providers for ASP.NET Beta Features
- Membership Provider
- Role Provider
- Profile Provider
- Site Map Provider
- Session State Provider
- Web Events Provider
- Web Parts Personalization Provider
- Cache Dependency Provider