Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio Release Notes
Version 23.6.0
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.
"An unexpected error occurred in the ODP.NET, Managed Driver. Please contact vendor to resolve this problem.": If you receive this error when creating a Server Explorer connection while using the Visual Studio 2022 LTSC 17.8 channel, upgrade Visual Studio 2022 to version 17.8.15 or higher.
"Object reference not set to an instance of an object" If you receive this error when using Entity Data Model (EDM) Wizard to import database schema objects, use the following workaround: Click ok on the error dialog. You will be prompted to provide a name for a new model. Specify a different model name (don't use the previous model name) and then continue.
Visual C# Oracle CLR Project and Visual Basic Oracle CLR Project have 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.