OraDirect .NET History

This page lists the functionality added in each version of OraDirect .NET. To view the full changelog including bug fixes, consult the OraDirect .NET revision history.

20-Aug-08 New features in OraDirect .NET 4.75

  • Supported .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1
  • Supported Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1

29-May-08 New features in OraDirect .NET 4.70

  • Supported .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta
  • Supported Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta
  • Improved support for ADO.NET Entity Framework

23-Apr-08 New features in OraDirect .NET 4.60

  • Supported Visual Studio designers for Entity Framework
  • Improved Entity Framework run time support

26-Feb-08 New features in OraDirect .NET 4.50

  • Oracle ANYDATA type supported
  • Added DB server-based data paging for web applications
  • OracleDataSource design time improvements
  • ASP.NET demo pack added
  • OracleSelectStatement.TryParse method added
  • OracleXml class changed
  • DataLink.DataSource property can refer to another DataLink component

20-Dec-07 New features in OraDirect .NET 4.35

  • Visual Studio 2008 supported
  • Entity Framework Beta 3 supported
  • Added Licensing Information dialog

19-Nov-07 New features in OraDirect .NET 4.30

  • Oracle version 11g supported

25-Oct-07 New features in OraDirect .NET 4.25

  • .NET Entity Framework Beta 2 supported
  • Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 supported
  • Added Visual Basic versions to CRM, WinForms, and Web samples

30-Aug-07 New features in OraDirect .NET 4.20

  • Supported Visual Studio codename Orcas Beta 1
  • Supported .NET Entity Framework
  • Supported Proxy Authentication
  • Supported OCI Pooling
  • Enhanced command builder with generation of row refresh statements
  • Added detailed warning information to OracleInfoMessageEventArgs class
  • Added DbCommand.GetRecordCount() method to determine rows count of a request
  • Added INullable interface for provider specific types
  • Improved LOBs performance in Direct mode
  • Added capability to store connection strings in application settings
  • Improved integration with OraDeveloper Tools
  • Extended drag'n'drop capabilities in DataSet Manager
  • Add-in menu moved to Visual Studio package
  • Demo projects reorganized
  • Added CRM (Customer Relationship Management) demo project
  • Added Ping demo project for Mobile Edition

03-May-07 New features in OraDirect .NET 4.00

Application development enhancement

  • Added DataSet Manager to control dataset instances in the project
  • Added DataSet Editor for convenient datasets manipulation
  • New OracleDataSet class to use with OracleDataTable
  • New component DataLink added for flexible data binding
  • New capabilities added to OracleDataTable class
  • Added capability for cross-form components cooperation
  • Design time visualization extended
  • Supported addin, DataSet Wizard, and OraDeveloper Tools integration with Borland Developer Studio

.NET 2 features

  • Added OracleDependency class to support Database Change Notification
  • Added OracleDataSourceEnumerator class to support Server Enumeration feature
  • Added support for Batch Update in OracleDataAdapter
  • Added support for returning provider-specific types in OracleDataReader and OracleDataAdapter

Advanced Oracle features

  • LOBs and Oracle Objects now entirely support the disconnected model
  • Supported Oracle Advanced Queue technology
  • New OracleAlerter component added
  • New OraclePipe component added
  • New OracleTrace component added
  • Oracle Client Software x64 supported
  • Added support for custom UDT classes
  • Added support for IN and IN/OUT REF CURSORs
  • OracleDataAdapter now supports sequential fetch
  • Added new class OracleGlobalization for managing culture settings

Other features

  • SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Solutions supported
  • Added OracleSelectStatement class for building SELECT statements
  • Added list of servers in connection form and connection properties
  • Added OracleLoader.LoadTable method
  • Added DbLoader class that serves to load external data into database
  • Added OraDirect .NET information to Visual Studio 2005 splash screen and About box
  • Base level classes moved to the new assembly CoreLab.Data.dll
  • New demo projects added
  • Bug with handling broken connections in connection pool fixed
  • Bug with InputOutput VARCHAR parameters fixed

OraDeveloper Tools 2.00 improvements

  • Added PL/SQL and SQL script debuggers
  • Added a project management framework for bookmarking related scripts and organizing database developments
  • Enhanced SQL Editor with context-sensitive code completion, code navigation, incremental search, and more
  • Enhanced working with data, including possibility to print data directly from data editor
  • Added search in object data and source code
  • Added an extensive collection of SQL and PL/SQL code templates
  • Completely redesigned Security Manager for controlling user accounts
  • Added a Session Manager for controlling and analyzing user sessions
  • Added an Event Monitor for exchanging signals between database connections
  • Extended Oracle schema object support, including support for XML Schemas, Materialized Views, and Materialized View Logs

12-Dec-06 New features in OraDirect .NET 3.55

  • Windows Vista support added

17-Apr-06 New features in OraDirect .NET 3.50

  • Implemented advanced integration with Visual Studio 2005, including Server Explorer, Data Source wizard, TableAdapter configuration, Query Builder and configuring web component SqlDataSource
  • Mono support added
  • ASP.NET 2.0 providers added: Membership Provider, Profile Provider, Role Provider, Session State Provider
  • Capability to call OraDirect .NET runtime assemblies by partially trusted code added
  • DataSet Wizard added
  • Enterprise Library Data Access Application Block support added
  • Added streaming support for OracleScript
  • OraDeveloper Tools installation separated from OraDirect .NET installation
  • Four digits of OracleConnection.Client version is returning
  • Licensing for applications that call OraDirect .NET through DbProviderFactory added.
  • This allows to use OraDirect .NET in SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence Solutions

28-Dec-05 New features in OraDirect .NET 3.20

  • Supported .NET Framework 2.0 release version
  • Supported Visual Studio 2005 release version
  • Compact .NET Framework 2.0 supported
  • Performance improved in working with Oracle Object types
  • Sample projects for OraDirect .NET Mobile added

OraDeveloper Tools improvements (Professional edition only):

  • Database export/import
  • Script support
  • Stop execution feature
  • Execution of the selected SQL fragment feature
  • Data Export feature
  • Dynamic data viewing of the tables and views in DbExplorer
  • Paginal data access mode
  • LOB viewer/editor
  • Database object search
  • Duplicate object feature
  • DDL generation wizard
  • Data grid colors customizing

11-Jul-05 New features in OraDirect .NET 3.01

  • OracleCommandBuilder.UpdatingFields property added
  • OracleLoader now inherits from DbLoader class

03-Jun-05 New features in OraDirect .NET 3.00

  • Access to Oracle server without Oracle client software with Direct mode
  • Support for .NET Compact Framework added with Mobile edition
  • OracleDataTable component greatly enhanced with OracleObject and Arrays advanced data binding and update capabilities
  • New functionality added to OracleScript component
  • Oracle warning support added to OracleConnection.InfoMessage event
  • Interface enhanced for OraclePackage component
  • Publisher policy file added for versions compatibility
  • Support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 added

Design-time tools are completely revised, extended and called OraDeveloper Tools (Professional edition only):

  • Visual editors for Oracle schema objects added
  • Query Builder tool rewritten and improved
  • SQL editor tool improved
  • Execution plan visualization tool added
  • Ability to drag connections, tables and stored procedures from DbExplorer to Form Designer added
  • Component designers more tightly integrated with OraDeveloper Tools

06-Jan-05 New features in OraDirect .NET 2.50

  • Support for .NET Framework 2.0 added
  • Support for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2005 Beta 1
  • Support ADO.NET 2 features including:
  • Support for metadata schemas added
  • The Base-Class-Based provider model used
  • Connection pooling enhancements functionality added, that allows you to programmatically "drain" the connection pool
  • New OracleConnectionStringBuilder component to build connection strings to represent data sources
  • Support for Borland Delphi 2005
  • Documentation enriched

21-Jul-04 New features in OraDirect .NET 2.40

  • Performance increased
  • New component OracleDataTable added
  • New methods for asynchronous working added
  • Support for paginal access to query result added
  • Support for multiple ExecuteReader added
  • Retrieve ROWID to dataset 'ROWID' column added
  • Parameter editor extended for Array and Tables datatypes
  • Datatype conversions ability extended for OracleParameter.Value

30-Apr-04 New features in OraDirect .NET 2.30

  • Oracle 10g support
  • Multiple home environment
  • XMLType support
  • Supports BINARY_FLOAT and BINARY_DOUBLE types
  • Oracle 10g Instant Client support
  • Dynamic fetch size feature added
  • Statement caching (Oracle 10g only)
  • Transparent Application Failover (TAF) support
  • Overloaded stored procedures
  • RECORD data type as parameters type
  • Schema table for REF cursor's and nested tables
  • Working with VARRAY and TABLE data types as native .NET array types
  • OracleDataReader.HasRows property added
  • OracleCommand.GetRowId method for native Oracle ROWID
  • OracleCommand.Cancel method supported
  • OracleError and OracleErrorCollection for Array Binding errors
  • OraclePermission class and attribute added

11-Feb-04 New features in OraDirect .NET 2.01

  • Support for Borland Delphi 8 and Borland C#Builder 1.0 added

02-Oct-03 New features in OraDirect .NET 2.00

  • Fully rewritten 100% managed code
  • Available Standard and Professional editions
  • Support Oracle 9i types such as TIMESTAMP, INTERVAL
  • Support Oracle object types OBJECT, VARRAY, TABLE, REF
  • Native classes and structures to represent Oracle types
  • Connection pooling support
  • Unicode support added
  • Array binding feature support
  • PL/SQL tables support
  • Fill DataSet with several REF CURSOR
  • OS authentication enabled
  • DBA privileges to open a session with
  • Controlling automatic commit data for the connection
  • Enables changing expired password
  • Transaction savepoints support added
  • Optimization fetching data with OracleCommand.FetchSize property
  • Getting offset of the error in SQL statement
  • OraDirect .NET help integrated into Visual Studio .NET
  • XML documentation for code completion added
  • Migration wizard from MS OracleClient and ODP.NET
  • Typed Oracle package wizard
  • New sample applications added

24-Jun-03 New features in OraDirect .NET 1.55

  • Visual Studio .NET 2003 support added
  • Property editors for OracleCommandBuilder.KeyFields and OracleCommandBuilder.UpdatingTable added.

11-Feb-03 New features in OraDirect .NET 1.50

  • New component OracleScript added. Servers to execute series of SQL statements separated by special symbols, like SQL*Plus scripts.
  • New component OracleLoader added. Serves to load external data into the Oracle database. Uses direct path load interface to speed up loading.
  • New component OracleMonitor added. Allows to monitor dynamic SQL execution in applications that use OraDirect .NET. Extended monitoring capabilities are provided with DBMonitor application.
  • New component OraclePackage added. Provides access to packages stored in Oracle database.
  • OracleConnection.Home property added to support Oracle Homes
  • OracleConnection.Error event added
  • OracleConnection.GetServerList() static method added
  • Performance greatly increased
  • Designer form for OracleDataAdapter component setup added
  • OracleCommand component designer functionality extended
  • Typed dataset generation mechanism enabled for OracleDataAdapter
  • Automatic component registration (in toolbox) mechanism added
  • OraDesigner, OraExplorer, OraBuilder and OraDebugger are now embedded into OraDirect .NET
  • BlobPictures, Loader, Pictures, StoredProc samples added
  • Visual Basic .NET samples added

17-Jul-02 New features in OraDirect .NET 1.20

  • ASP.NET sample project
  • MasterDetail sample project
  • UnloadedAppDomain bug fixed
  • Special characters in connect string bug fixed
  • Statement handle not executed bug fixed (1212)

13-Jun-02 New features in OraDirect .NET 1.12

  • SchemaInfo bug fixed (1230)
  • OracleConnection [@name.globalname] connection string bug fixed (1322)
  • OracleCommand.CommandText property editor added
  • Design-time bug with sp describe fixed (1134)
  • References to extensibility and envdte removed from OracleDesign (1152)
  • Design-time execution bug with not caught exception fixed (1123)
  • WaitCursor for design-time describe added (1208)
  • OraTools version added to About form (1231)

15-May-02 New features in OraDirect .NET 1.10

  • DataSet sample project
  • DataReader sample project
  • Table sample project
  • "Designer..." verb added to OracleConnection ComponentDesigner
  • Add-in bug with help menu fixed

09-Apr-02 First release of OraDirect .NET 1.00