Author: Jonathan Bruce
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Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Award!
Always happy to highlight awards when we win them. Today is no exception. Today Visual Studio magazine "announced that its Progress® DataDirect Connect® for ADO.NET data providers have been honored with a Readers' Choice Merit Award in... -
Splitsville for System.Data.OracleClient & .NET – Part Deux
There's been a lot of buzz (see below for some collected links) about Microsoft's decision to deprecate System.Data.OracleClient).
I've received numerous emails, and as a company we've been watching...
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Effective EF with Oracle
In conversations with many .NET developers and architects, I consistently hear a preference to build their initial implementations with SQL Server. In many cases, it’s perfectly logical to do this. If you want to spin your application quickly, it offers the least path of resistance to get things up...
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Splitsville for Oracle & .NET?
Microsoft today made official that the System.Data.OracleClient is being deprecated. In software terms this is code for “it’s not you, it’s me”. Breakups are never easy, but to ease the pain lets look as some of the facts: It is easy to appreciate that deprecating an established component out of a... -
ADO.NET Entity Framework for Oracle – Beta Refresh
Today has unquestionably been an interesting day for .NET developers who work with Oracle data sources, so it’s timely that we announce our beta refresh for our ADO.NET Entity... -
Oracle ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta - Some Restrictions
So far we have been delighted with the reaction we have seen with our beta Oracle support for the ADO.NET Entity Framework. We are diligently working on addressing the excellent feedback, so keep the questions and comments coming! Send all comments & questions to... -
Oracle support for the ADO.NET Entity Framework
Announcing a significant update to our Oracle provider from Connect for ADO.NET! We have enabled the use of the Microsoft® Entity Framework with Oracle data sources, supporting a wide range of Oracle... -
DbBulkCopy, Csv and mappings galore
As recently as our Connect for ADO.NET 3.2 release, we introduced support for bulk load operations across all of our providers. We are already getting excellent feedback on what we hoped would be our most prominent... -
Struggling with 64-bit Vista to Oracle access?
Over the past week or so I've received a wave of Google Alerts highlighting a spate of issues people are seeing on 64-bit Windows Vista, especially when trying to configure their data access to an Oracle...
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