About dotConnect for Oracle

ADO.NET provider for Oracle with ORM support.

dotConnect for Oracle is a high-performance ORM enabled data provider for Oracle that builds on ADO.NET technology to present a complete solution for developing Oracle-based database applications. It introduces new approaches for designing application architecture, boosts productivity, and facilitates the development of database applications.

dotConnect for Oracle Features

  • Advanced Visual Studio Integration - dotConnect for Oracle provides a vast number of GUI tools that increase your productivity. For example, it includes DataSet tools, such as DataSet Wizard, DataSet Editor, DataSet Manager, provide you an easy way to create and edit typed and untyped DataSets. Oracle ADO.NET Provider supports advanced Visual Studio integration (DDEX), and provides convenient visual component editors to simplify component tweaking.
  • Broad Compatibility - dotConnect for Oracle supports .NET Core and Entity Framework Core, and supports new platforms and development technologies as soon as they are released.
  • Enhanced ORM Support - dotConnect for Oracle offers enhanced ORM support with a bundled visual designer for ORM models - Entity Developer.
  • Direct Mode - Allows your application to work with Oracle directly via TCP/IP without involving Oracle Client.
  • ASP.NET - Implements Role, Session State, Membership, Profile, Site Map, and other ASP providers.
  • Performance - Uses many Oracle-specific performance features & optimizations to ensure the highest performance.
  • BIS - Enables Integration Services to export and import data to/from Oracle servers.
  • Monitoring - Allows per-component tracing of database events with a free dbMonitor application.
  • Security - Supports various encryption algorithms, OS authentication, Proxy authentication, Oracle Data Integrity, etc.

The Standard Edition represents a fully-featured ADO.NET data provider with design time support and advanced classes.

The Professional Edition adds more classes, tools, technologies, and integration capabilities.

The Developer Edition combines the whole featureset with including dbForge Fusion for Oracle Standard Edition, an advanced add-in for designing databases and easily managing data and schema objects from your IDE.

The Mobile Edition is equivalent to the Standard Edition for .NET Compact Framework.