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New sample provider demonstrates Oracle connectivity

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As noted on Jaroslaw Kowalski's blog, we have released a new flavor of the ADO.NET Entity Framework sample provider. You can access the Oracle flavor of the sample provider on the Code Gallery site here.

 

The new sample wraps System.Data.OracleClient instead of System.Data.SqlClient, demonstrating Oracle connectivity from the Entity Framework. We chose to build this second flavor of the sample provider using OracleClient to help the provider writer community as well as to investigate issues that third party provider writers might encounter. As noted in the readme for the OracleClient sample provider, we've addressed many of those issues within the Entity Framework in more recent builds.

 

The OracleClient flavor of the sample provider also demonstrates some key concepts we wanted to convey to other provider writers such as non-default type mappings, data type coercion in the reader, and canonical functions. For more information on these topics, see Jarek's blog post.

 

As with the SqlClient flavor of the sample provider, we've chosen a license agreement that we believe will allow most provider writers to leverage the code in the sample to give them a running head start.

 

Enjoy!

 

David Sceppa

ADO.NET Program Manager

Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 24, 2008
    PingBack from http://wordnew.acne-reveiw.info/?p=2930

  • Anonymous
    August 21, 2008
    Thanks to everyone who attended!  You can download the deck and links to the code here: Normally,

  • Anonymous
    August 25, 2008
    Do you know any Oracle Data Provider for EF Beta 3?

  • Anonymous
    September 16, 2008
    Oracle OpenWorld 2008: Relax and Network at the OCP Lounge

  • Anonymous
    January 16, 2009
    Still no word on when (if?) oracle will have their own provider ready for entity framework?