Heresy!

[F.Hinlopen]

I fear I see .NET in my future. For Oracle this means I need to go through OLE DB, which sounds a lot like (shudder) BDE. Are you considering doing a native Oracle provider for .NET? Is Oracle working on something like that? Somehow I get this feeling that we can't rely on Microsoft to do anything that makes Oracle look good....

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Frans

 

[Marco Kalter]

I'm not sure if .NET requires any specific support from within Direct Oracle Access. If it does, we will certainly do so.

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Marco Kalter
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[F.Hinlopen]

I think we may be misunderstanding each other. .NET data-aware controls require the implementation of ADO.NET base classes. Currently AFAIK, there are two implementations of ADO.NET:
- SQL-Server native
- an OLE DB implementation.
Apart from its performance problems relative to a native implementation, OLE DB is more or less the same lowest common denominator approach as the BDE. This means I won't be able to utilize Oracle to the max.
My question is basically: will there be a DOA.NET by which I mean an Oracle native implementation of ADO.NET which also gives me all of the extra goodies I am used to with the current Delphi DOA?
Hope I have made myself clearer!

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Frans

 

[Marco Kalter]

You have, but but we haven't looked at .NET support yet, so I can't really provide a better answer than my previous one.

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