Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio Release Notes

Version 21.11.0

• This is a patch release that fixes the following issues:
  35641303 - UNABLE TO REOPEN ORACLE DATABASE PROJECT - "TARGET FRAMEWORK NOT SUPPORTED"
  32097768 - SINGLE-SESSION PROXY CONNECTION SHOULD NOT REQUIRE END USER TO PROVIDE PASSWORD
• Online help installation instructions: Run the Visual Studio installer and install Help Viewer. In the Visual Studio menu, under Help menu, set Help Preference to Launch in Help Viewer. Download and install the ODT Visual Studio Help 19.3. Once installed, press F1 from ODT dialogs to view context sensitive help.
• When retreiving data from tables that contain a User Defined Type (UDT) column, you may receive the following error: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Text.Json'. This occurs in older versions of Visual Studio 2022, and the workarounds are to upgrade Visual Studio 2022 to a newer version or to downgrade this extension to version 21.7.0: Download link for 21.7.0.
• The Autonomous Database Clone feature and dialog has been removed.
• Server Explorer database connections using ODP.NET, Unmanaged Driver are no longer supported and ODP.NET, Unmanaged Driver is no longer included with this extension.
• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Application Deployment (Kubernetes Deployment) is no longer supported.
• When debugging a stored procedure using “Run Debug” or “Step Into” context menu: If you open a stored procedure in the editor and try to set a breakpoint, you may need to set the breakpoint twice for the breakpoint to be visible.