Tuesday, July 07, 2009

Microsoft Deprecates Its Oracle Data Provider for .NET - Now What?

Microsoft announced it is deprecating Microsoft OracleClient, a Microsoft-built .NET data provider for the Oracle Database because third-party providers, such as Oracle, offer superior ADO.NET providers.

If you have been using this provider with your applications, ask yourself: “What do I do now?”

For existing Microsoft OracleClient developers, this is an opportunity to take a fresh look at the Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET), which is free to download from OTN. In recent years, Oracle has added new features to ODP.NET for performance tuning, user-defined types, advanced queuing, RAC connection pooling, and supporting multiple ODP.NET client versions simultaneously on the same machine.

Check out the ODP.NET for Microsoft OracleClient Developers page to learn why developers are choosing ODP.NET for their Oracle .NET projects, and how using ODP.NET makes .NET applications for Oracle Database more stable, flexible and faster.

The page will also provide a step-by-step Microsoft OracleClient to ODP.NET migration tutorial in the near future.

Hope it helps...

Paul

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