Microsoft has put developers on notice that it is deprecating the ADO.NET provider for Oracle shipped with the .NET Framework: System.Data.OracleClient (OracleClient) as of .NET 4, expected in 2010.

In a significant move for those who develop .NET applications targeting Oracle databases, Microsoft is removing the Oracle data provider from its ADO.NET roadmap. Microsoft said yesterday it decided ...

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Oracle is giving its .NET tools an upgrade and adding a new one to the portfolio. The database giant today is releasing beta versions of the free tools intended to provide Visual Studio developers ...

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Take advantage of the Entity Client Provider -- a client side query engine, to execute queries against a conceptual model of data Microsoft’s Entity framework is an open source ORM framework for ...