2. Getting Started with Oracle and .NET
Alex Keh
Principal Product Manager
Server Technologies

3. Agenda Oracle and .NET – Getting Started
Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio
Demo
Oracle Providers for ASP.NET
Oracle Data Provider for .NET
Next Steps

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Oracle and .NET –
Getting Started

5. Oracle and Microsoft Relationship
Engineering
Close collaboration with Microsoft engineering teams
Access to pre-release drops of Microsoft products
Community
Developer and database websites for both communities
Joint training, road shows, tech articles, white papers, etc.
Conference sponsorships (TechEd, PDC, OpenWorld, etc.)
Support
Microsoft Premier Support Agreement
Collaboration of support teams

6. .NET Development Environment Support
Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio
Oracle Data Provider for .NET
Application Development
Deploy
Visual Studio
Environment
.NET Application
Deploy
Web or Client/Server Application
Database Development
Oracle Providers for ASP.NET
Oracle Database Extensions for .NET

7. .NET Components for Oracle Database
Free
Stay in Visual Studio for project lifecycle
Supports Visual Studio 2003, 2005, and 2008
Complete access to .NET functionality
Supports .NET Framework 1.0 and higher
Supports 32-bit, x64, and 64-bit Itanium platforms
ASP.NET services and controls via ASP.NET providers
Easy to use and intuitive
Native access to Oracle Database
Utilize advanced Oracle Database features
E.g. RAC, performance, security, data types, XML, etc.

8. Develop on Windows, Database on any Platform
ODT and
ODP.NET
Linux
Visual Studio
Environment
Unix
Windows
Other
Oracle 11g,10g, 9i, or 8i

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Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio (ODT)

10. Feature Overview Fully integrated with Visual Studio 2008/2005
Server Explorer
Data Sources Window
Dataset Designer
TableAdapter Configuration Wizard
Query Builder/Query Designer
More
Fully integrated with Visual Studio .NET 2003
Oracle Explorer
Automatic code generation – Winform and ASP.NET
Makes ASP.NET web application development very easy

11. Visual Studio Integration
D E M O N S T R A T I O N
Visual Studio Integration

12. Feature Overview Oracle Wizards and Designers Oracle Data Window
Table/View Designer
Stored Procedure/Function/package Wizards
Grant/Revoke Privileges Wizard
UDT Designers
UDT Custom Class Code Generation Wizard
Table/View Migration Wizard
Oracle Data Window
Oracle Database Project
Edit and Run SQL scripts
SQL*Plus is built in
Source control integration
Integrated PL/SQL Editor and Debugger

13. Feature Overview Oracle Query Window .NET Stored Procedure Deployment
Ad Hoc SQL
Explain Plan
.NET Stored Procedure Deployment
Integrated help system – SQL, PL/SQL keywords

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Oracle Providers for ASP.NET

15. Oracle Providers for ASP.NET
Pre-built services to store website state into Oracle
Services for commonly used website information
E.g. user info, user roles, shopping cart
Easy to learn
Based on standard ASP.NET provider APIs and schema
Inherits from .NET Framework 2.0 base classes
Compatible with ASP.NET service classes
No unique extensions in Oracle ASP.NET providers

16. Oracle Providers for ASP.NET
Seamless integration with ASP.NET services and controls
Reference to specific providers unnecessary
High level of abstraction: services and controls based programming
Easy to switch from SQL Server to Oracle quickly
Configuration file determines which data source to use
Easy to setup and manage
Can be managed by IIS or Website Admin Tool

17. Oracle Providers for ASP.NET
IIS
ASP.NET Controls
ASP.NET Services
Oracle Providers for ASP.NET
ODP.NET

18. Oracle Providers for ASP.NET
Oracle Providers for ASP.NET Components
Cache Dependency Provider
Membership Provider
Profile Provider
Role Provider
Site Map Provider
Session State Provider
Web Parts Personalization Provider
Web Events Provider
Administrators can pick and choose which providers to use

19. D E M O N S T R A T I O N
ASP.NET Providers

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Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET)

21. ODP.NET Object Model Disconnected Layer Connected Layer (ODP.NET) Data
Oracle
DataAdapter
Oracle CommandBuilder
DataSet
Oracle
DataReader
Oracle
Command
Oracle
Transaction
Oracle
Connection
Oracle

22. D E M O N S T R A T I O N
ODP.NET

23. ODP.NET Features Connection pooling RAC Full PL/SQL support
Min, Max, Timeout, Lifetime, Increment, Decrement
RAC
Automatic load balancing
Automatic connection cleanup
Full PL/SQL support
Packaged, non-packaged, anonymous, autonomous
Batch SQL available with anonymous PL/SQL
Here are some of the ODP.NET features that were not previously available to ADO, OLE DB .NET, nor ODBC .NET users:
More robust anonymous (use PL/SQL blocks in .NET code) PL/SQL support
Native Oracle types and safe type mapping
Connection Pooling Configuration
PL/SQL can be used more flexibly with ODP.NET. Anonymous PL/SQL allows the client to batch SQL calls to the DB. When you embed multiple commands within anonymous PL/SQL, only one roundtrip to the database is made, thereby improving data access performance.
Native Oracle types allow users to use Oracle data types within their .NET programs. This makes using Oracle data easier and much more flexible from .NET. It saves developers and applications from doing unnecessary conversions to .NET data types if they are not needed. Each native Oracle data type can be mapped to a respective .NET data type.
Because Oracle data types tend to be higher precision than .NET types, Oracle allows conversion between the two types without losing data. This is known as safe type mapping. For example, Oracle Number can hold 38 digits, whereas .NET Decimal only holds 28. Safe type mapping allows converting Oracle Number to .NET byte array or .NET string and back to Oracle Number without losing any data.
Creating DB connections is resource intensive. As such, connection pooling is an invaluable performance tuning option. Previously, .NET developers could only set timeout values for their connection pools. With ODP.NET, connection pools are very flexible to configure for any type of application user load.

24. ODP.NET Features Native Oracle data types Parameters
REF Cursors, LOBs, XMLType, TimeStamp, etc.
Safe type mapping to .NET data types
Parameters
PL/SQL Associative Array data type
LOBs
Ability to pre-fetch or defer LOB retrieval

25. ODP.NET Features XML Transactions XMLType data type
Query and Save XML from the DB
Both relational and object-relational
Interoperate with MS XML APIs (e.g. XmlReader)
Supports XSLT, XPATH, and XML Schema
Transactions
Enterprise Services via Oracle Services for MTS
Local (Implicit and Explicit)
System.Transactions
Savepoints
There features are not available to ADO, OLE DB .NET, nor ODBC .NET users:
ODP.NET XML APIs
XML DB is a high performance XML storage and retrieval technology in the Oracle DB. XML DB stores XML natively in the DB with its own data type, XMLType. ODP.NET exposes XMLType as a native type within .NET to manipulate XML and share XML with Microsoft’s XML services, such as XMLReader. ODP.NET can access relational and object-relational data as XML with the ability to query and save XML from the database easily.

26. Top Unique ODP.NET Features
Features Oracle SQL 2008
Better Result Set Tuning Options Yes No
Configurable LOB Retrieval Yes No
Array Parameters Yes No
Proxy Auth. and Secure App Context Yes No
Real Application Clusters Support Yes No
Self-Updating Cache Yes No

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Next Steps

28. Oracle Technology Network – .NET Developer Center
Free downloads of Visual Studio tools, ODP.NET, ASP.NET providers, and Oracle Database XE
White papers
Sample code
Demo videos
Help forums
“How to” step by step tutorials
Latest Oracle on .NET news

29. More Information .NET Technology Center Windows Server Center
Windows Server Center
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