ANN: OraDirect .NET data provider for Oracle

Core Lab company has announced today absolutely new product for the Microsoft .NET Framework - OraDirect .NET data provider. It is full featured .NET data provider which completely based on ActiveX Data Objects for the .NET Framework (ADO.NET) technology.

OraDirect .NET uses Oracle Call Interface (OCI) directly and provides functionality for connecting to Oracle database, executing commands, and retrieving results.
Only using OraDirect .NET gives you following advantages such as direct access to Oracle database, using advanced design-time editors and OraTools Add-In.
OraDirect .NET data provider is designed to be lightweight. It consists of a minimal layer between Oracle database and your code. This extends functionality without sacrificing performance.

There are four core objects that make up a OraDirect .NET data provider.

  OraConnection - Establishes a connection to Oracle database and     can begin a transaction.
  OraCommand - Executes a SQL or PL/SQL statements and stored     procedures at Oracle database, and exposes parameters.   OraDataReader - Exposes and reads a forward-only stream of data     from Oracle database.
  OraDataAdapter - Populates a DataSet and resolves updates with     Oracle database.

OraDirect .NET supports Oracle 7.3, 8.0, 8i and 9i, including Personal and Lite editions.

For more information and to download trial version please visit http://www.crlab.com/oradirect Received on Tue Jun 04 2002 - 04:58:32 CDT