3 Features of Oracle Data Provider for .NET

This chapter describes Oracle Data Provider for .NET provider-specific features and how to use them to develop .NET applications.

This chapter contains these topics:

• Connecting to Oracle Database

• ADO.NET 2.0 Features

• ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ to Entities

• OracleCommand Object

• ODP.NET Types Overview

• Obtaining Data from an OracleDataReader Object

• PL/SQL REF CURSOR and OracleRefCursor

• Implicit REF CURSOR Binding

• LOB Support

• ODP.NET XML Support

• Oracle User-Defined Types (UDTs) and .NET Custom Types

• Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing Support

• Database Change Notification Support

• OracleDataAdapter Safe Type Mapping

• OracleDataAdapter Requery Property

• Guaranteeing Uniqueness in Updating DataSet to Database

• Globalization Support

• Debug Tracing