Overview of Other Development Environments
choose for developing your own applications.
Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET
extends the Microsoft .NET Framework Class Library. ODP.NET uses the .NET
Framework to expose provider-specific features and data types, so its use of native
Oracle Database APIs bring the features of Oracle Database to .NET applications.
(CLR) host for Oracle Database, data access through ODP.NET classes, and the Oracle
Deployment Wizard for Visual Studio .NET. Because CLR runs as an external process
on Oracle Database server, this integration enables you to run .NET stored procedures
and functions on Oracle Database in Microsoft Windows XP, 2000, and 2003. These
stored procedures and functions can be authored in any .NET language, such as C#
and VB.NET, and then deployed in Oracle Database using the Oracle Deployment
Wizard for .NET, just like PL/SQL or Java stored procedures.
functionality through Visual Studio .NET. Oracle Developer Tools include Oracle
Explorer for browsing the database schema, wizards and designers for creating and
altering schema objects, the ability to automatically generate code by dragging schema
objects onto the .NET design form, and a PL/SQL editor with integrated
context-sensitive help. Additionally, the Oracle Data Window enables you to perform
routine database tasks and test stored procedures in the Visual Studio environment,
while the SQL Query Window executes SQL statements and scripts.
Database 2 Day + .NET Developer's Guide.
Developer's Guide and Oracle Database Extensions for .NET Developer's Guide.
Developer Tools, downloads, tutorials, and related information, see the .NET Oracle
Technology Network site at
language for quick Web application development. PHP is an open source language
that is distributed under a BSD-style license. PHP is designed for embedding Oracle
Database access requests directly into HTML pages.
Oracle Database 2 Day + PHP Developer's Guide.
see the PHP Oracle Technology Network site at