Chapter 15. Building Data-Driven Applications with ODT.NET

Oracle, like any powerful software, has always carried the unfortunate stigma of being complex, unproductive, and generally difficult to use among .NET developers. Although the Oracle database is clearly a superior product, the tightly knit nature of the Microsoft SQL Server database and the .NET Framework easily made SQL Server the database of choice among developers who were given a choice between the two.

ODT.NET is Oracle's answer to this problem. One of the benefits of ODT.NET is that it bridges Oracle's powerful technology with the ease of use that you would expect from Microsoft. Gone are the days when you had to do everything in a tiny command line window. As you've seen in the ...

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