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 OraDirect .NET Features

  • General usability

    • Direct access to server data. OraDirect .NET can be used without Oracle Client Software.
    • Real RAD for database applications
    • Fully compliant with ADO.NET
    • 100% managed code
    • Highly usable design time support
    • Easy to deploy

  • Network and connectivity

    • In Direct mode does not require Oracle Client Software and works directly through TCP/IP
    • Both connected and disconnected data access models
    • Support for setting connection timeout values for Direct mode
    • OS authentication
    • DBA privileges to open a session with
    • Proxy Authentication support [New]
    • Unicode connections

  • Compatibility

    • Full support of the latest versions of Oracle, including Personal and Express editions
    • Support for all versions of Oracle Clients, including Instant Client
    • Full support for x64 architecture
    • .NET Compact Framework support
    • Mono Framework support
    • Visual Studio .NET 2002, 2003, 2005, and 2008 support [Improved]
    • Borland Delphi 8, 2005, 2006, Turbos support
    • SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Solutions support [Improved]
    • Publisher policy files for versions compatibility

  • Oracle technology support

    • Oracle Advanced Queuing support
    • Oracle package support with powerful OraclePackage component
    • Ability to manage alerts with OracleAlerter class
    • Ability to use pipes with OraclePipe class
    • Support for Direct Path interface with OracleLoader component
    • Ability to perform SQL and PL/SQL tracing with OracleTrace class
    • Support for Oracle Change notifications functionality of Oracle 10g
    • Oracle Transparent Application Failover support
    • Multiple Oracle Homes support
    • DML array operations support
    • Direct LOB access support [Improved]
    • Temporary LOB management routines
    • Temporary LOBs for updating LOB fields
    • Miscellaneous LOB management modes
    • OCI Connection Pooling [New]
    • Statement Caching
    • ROWID values retrieval
    • Overloaded stored procedures support
    • OracleGlobalization for managing culture settings

  • Oracle data types support

    • All Oracle data types support
    • TIMESTAMP and INTERVAL data types support
    • PL/SQL table support
    • PL/SQL records support
    • Support for REF CURSORs, including IN, OUT, and IN/OUT
    • Oracle Object (including NOT FINAL objects) types support
    • Nested table support
    • Objects handling in both connected and disconnected modes
    • XMLTYPE data type support

  • Performance

    • High overall performance
    • Intelligent fetch block size control
    • Advanced connection pooling
    • High performance batch processing

  • ADO.NET technology support

    • Full support for ADO.NET Entity Framework [New]
    • Server enumeration
    • Batch update support
    • Extended metadata information retrieval
    • Advanced CommandBuilder component with automatic refresh SQL [Improved]
    • Enhanced pooling control through connection string
    • Connection string builder
    • Provider factory for generating key data access classes
    • Asynchronous command execution
    • Provider-specific types support [Improved]
    • Password change API
    • Database Change Notification Support
    • OracleCommand execution cancelling support

  • Extended data access technologies and functionality

    • Powerful OracleDataTable component for manipulating individual tables or query result
    • Structural representation and editing of Oracle objects
    • NonBlocking mode allows fetching data asynchronously in the background
    • Fill DataSet with several REF CURSOR
    • Fill DataSet with object, array and nested table data
    • On-demand data fetch for data-bound controls
    • Paginal access to query result
    • Server side master-detail relation based on queries
    • Ability to refresh individual records in OracleDataTable component
    • Support for Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block (DAAB)
    • Object-oriented building of SELECT statements
    • Extended warning and error information retrieval [Improved]
    • Extended interface for processing execution exceptions
    • OracleDataAdapter.Fill method with sequential fetch support
    • Ability to defer fetching of some columns in a resultset
    • Custom Oracle Object mapping with ICustomOracleObject interface

  • WinForms-specific features

    • Flexible data binding with DataLink component
    • InterForm technology for cross-form components cooperation
    • Oracle Object data binding Support
    • Global position synchronization within a data source

  • ASP.NET-specific features

    • ASP.NET data providers: Membership provider, Role provider, Session State provider, Profile provider
    • OracleDataSource web component
    • OracleCacheDependency component to control Cache item dependencies in ASP.NET applications

  • Script execution

    • Advanced script execution features with OracleScript component
    • Support for executing individual statements in scripts
    • Support for executing huge scripts stored in files with dynamic loading
    • Ability to use standard SQL*Plus tool syntax in scripts

  • SQL execution monitoring

    • Extended SQL tracing capabilities with OracleMonitor component
    • Support for DBMonitor utility for advanced tracing analysis and control
    • Per-component SQL tracing
    • Optional log output to IDE toolwindows

  • Design-time enhancements

    • Automatic component registration in toolbox
    • Advanced integration with Visual Studio 2005/2008, including Server Explorer, Data Source wizard, TableAdapter configuration, Query Builder and configuring web component OracleDataSource
    • DataSet Wizard to create and edit typed Oracle-oriented datasets
    • DataSet Manager to list and bind datasets in the project [Improved]
    • DataSet Editor to edit dataset contents
    • Oracle Package Wizard that simplifies working with PL/SQL Packages
    • Oracle Object Wizard that simplifies working with Oracle Objects
    • Advanced design-time component and property editors
    • IntelliSense descriptions for OraDirect .NET classes
    • Easy migration from MS OracleClient and ODP.NET with Migration Wizard
    • Syntax highlighting in design-time editors
    • TableMappings editor
    • Convenient instant data preview and management in design time

  • OraDeveloper Tools main features

    • Integration with OraDirect .NET for enhanced component designers and drag and drop features
    • PL/SQL debugger
    • SQL code completion and navigation
    • Visual query builder
    • Database Explorer
    • Visual object editors
    • Database search engine
    • Code template library
    • Security Manager
    • Session Manager
    • Export/Import Wizards

  • Product clarity

    • Complete documentation sets integrated into Visual Studio .NET and Borland Delphi
    • Integration with Visual Studio and MSDN help collections
    • Documentation available as a standalone chm file
    • A large amount of helpful demos in C#, VB, C++, and Delphi [Improved]

  • Licensing and support

    • Included annual OraDirect .NET Subscription with Priority Support
    • Licensed royalty-free per developer, per team, or per site



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