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  • Gijsie
    #1

    Moving to Visual Studio??

    Hi,

    We are a small company (2 developers, 6 other people) and develop "out of
    the box" applications for local government. Our databaseplatfor m is Oracle.
    We will stick with Oracle since all out customers will stick with Oracle. We
    develop in Borland Delphi (with DOA-components) and in Borland JBuilder
    (with JDBC). We are now considering to change our main development platform
    from Delphi to Microsoft Visual Studio.

    Things that worry me:
    Does Visual Studio always asume you are working with MSSQL.
    Will we have to use ODBC.
    Can you keep deploying simple. (I want to have one exe that can run from a
    CD)

    Can anyone please share their experience with developing in Visual Studio
    towards Oracle databases. And what version (Professional, Enterprise or
    Architect) do you recommend. And should I worry about totally different
    things?


    Thx
    Gijs de Wolff
    Beheervisie b.v.


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    • garfitz
      #2
      Re: Moving to Visual Studio??

      Gijs,

      While the .Net database layer (ADO.NET) can communicate with oracle
      using ODBC, there is a set of managed classes specifically for Oracle
      and so performance is there.

      I'm not sure what versions are supported - check out the VB.NET or C#
      google groups.

      There will be certain functions where SQL Server is supported - but
      these are peripheral rather than central to .NET.

      I do know other delphi developers who have switched to .NET and are
      more than happy.

      Architect has good XML schema modelling etc..
      If you are working for local government then the .net compact
      framework is useful for mobile apps.

      Hope this helps.
      Garrett.


      "Gijsie" <gijs.de.wolff@ beheervisie_.nl wrote in message news:<40b5bb33$ 0$561$e4fe514c@ news.xs4all.nl> ...
      Hi,
      >
      We are a small company (2 developers, 6 other people) and develop "out of
      the box" applications for local government. Our databaseplatfor m is Oracle.
      We will stick with Oracle since all out customers will stick with Oracle. We
      develop in Borland Delphi (with DOA-components) and in Borland JBuilder
      (with JDBC). We are now considering to change our main development platform
      from Delphi to Microsoft Visual Studio.
      >
      Things that worry me:
      Does Visual Studio always asume you are working with MSSQL.
      Will we have to use ODBC.
      Can you keep deploying simple. (I want to have one exe that can run from a
      CD)
      >
      Can anyone please share their experience with developing in Visual Studio
      towards Oracle databases. And what version (Professional, Enterprise or
      Architect) do you recommend. And should I worry about totally different
      things?
      >
      >
      Thx
      Gijs de Wolff
      Beheervisie b.v.

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