So it is perhaps equally unsurprising that Oracle should want to make it as easy as possible for those Visual Studio developers to build .Net applications for 10g, and it is to that end that the firm has just released a plug-in for Visual Studio that does just that – it’s giving it away free of course.
The firm also unveiled a new release of Oracle Data Provider for .Net in support of ADO.Net 2.0, Microsoft’s data access technology. That product is also available free.
Oracle said the latest version of its Developer Tools for Visual Studio .Net includes an integrated debugger that enables developers to debug PL/SQL stored procedures and functions from within Visual Studio 2005 when they are building applications for Oracle 10g.
Meanwhile the Oracle Data Provider for .Net enables developers to access information from the database more efficiently, specifically taking advantage of application security context, clustering, and native Oracle data types such as LOBs and REF Cursors, according to the firm.
Oracle said a number of customers already use its integration tools for .Net, including the City of Rotterdam, EDS, Intergraph, Lipper, Micro Focus, NEC, OSK, and Spatial Eye.
