Oracle .NET Developer Center

  Oracle's .NET development community numbers over 800,000 members. With Oracle's extensive support, Visual Studio developers can take full advantage of database and application server technologies, such as performance self-tuning, Real Application Clusters, messaging, and simplified management of advanced data types, such as XML, SecureFiles, and user-defined types. At the OTN .NET Developer Center, both beginner and advanced .NET programmers can enhance their Oracle skills through step-by-step tutorials, technical articles, white papers, and videos.

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What's New

.NET @ ODTUG Kscope13 The Oracle .NET sessions at ODTUG Kscope13 (June 23-27, New Orleans) have been announced. Kscope13 is the best conference around for developers building applications with Oracle technology. Register for the event today to learn the latest on Oracle .NET development.

Webinar: ODP.NET, Managed Driver It's finally going production, ODP.NET, Managed Driver! Register to attend this webinar (Thursday, July 25, 3 PM EDT) to learn all about the new ODP.NET, Managed Driver, including new features supported since the last beta.

.NET at Oracle OpenWorld Shanghai Attend Oracle OpenWorld Shanghai (July 22-25) to learn about developing .NET applications for Oracle Database from Oracle product managers. Register today!

ODP.NET, Managed Driver Beta 2 and New Schema Compare Visual Studio Tool Now Available ODP.NET, Managed Driver is 100% fully managed. Developers can deploy a single assembly, side by side with other ODP.NET versions easily in a deployment package smaller than 10 MB. In this second beta, ODP.NET, Managed Driver can perform the data access functions for Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio. This enables managed provider developers to build Entity Framework Database First and TableAdapter/Dataset code applications. A new Schema Compare Tool is also included with the Visual Studio tools that allows developers to view differences between two schemas and to generate a diff script that can modify a target schema to match the source schema. Download Managed ODP.NET Beta 11.2.0.3.60 Documentation Video: Introducing ODP.NET, Managed Driver (1 hr, 14 min) - Requires GoToMeeting codec, G2M3, to play the video Discussion Forum: ODP.NET Watch the quick start video on using ODP.NET Managed Driver!

Download ODAC 11.2 Release 5 with support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 ODAC 11.2 Release 5 production release with support for Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 is now available for free download. You can also watch a demonstration video on our new YouTube channel to see our Visual Studio 2012 integration in living color! As with earlier releases of Visual Studio, Oracle has partnered closely with Microsoft as part of the Visual Studio Industry Partner Program to make this early release possible. For the deployment versions of this release, including 64-bit and "xcopy", click here.

Oracle OpenWorld: .NET Presentation Downloads Oracle OpenWorld 2012 included a .NET session track on Oracle Database development, the presentation material from which can now be downloaded from OTN.

Customers Using Oracle Database and .NET Learn how customers are making their applications more powerful, faster, and faster to market with the power Oracle Database brings to .NET development. Podcast: Pennsylvania improves family life quality with Oracle and .NET Podcast: Waters Corporation meets its scalability, performance requirements with Oracle and .NET Article: Spatial Eye builds their next-generation application with Oracle and .NET

Oracle .NET Recorded Presentations and Webinars If you missed any of the OTN Virtual Developer Day or ODTUG webinars, you can watch the replays. The ODTUG webinars require the GoToMeeting codec, G2M3, to play the video, which can be downloaded here. OTN Virtual Developer Day -- Database -- includes .NET developer track. ODTUG: Maximize Performance with .NET Caching for Oracle Database: Client Result Cache, Continuous Query Notification, and TimesTen ODTUG: Entity Framework, LINQ, and WCF Data Services for Oracle Database

.NET Support for Oracle Database 11g Video: Oracle integration with Visual Studio 2010 demonstration Data Sheet: ODAC 11.2 Release 4 (11.2.0.3.0) (PDF) Data Sheet: ODAC 11.2 Release 3 (11.2.0.2.1) (PDF) Data Sheet: ODAC 11.2 Release 2 (11.2.0.1.2) (PDF) Technical White Paper: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Application Development (PDF) Data Sheet: ODAC 11.1.0.7.20 (PDF) Technical White Paper: ODP.NET 11.1.0.7.20 (PDF) Data Sheet: Oracle 11g (11.1.0.6) on .NET (PDF) Technical White Paper: ODP.NET 11g (PDF) Technical White Paper: New 11g Features in Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio (PDF) Technical White Paper: Oracle Database 11g on Windows: Development and Deployment (PDF)

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