Today, Quest Software announced a partnership with Microsoft to deliver a rich Oracle development experience in VSTS Developer 2010. I’m personally stoked about this. I have developed applications for Oracle using various IDEs over the years. I’ve also worked on the client aid building apps in Visual Studio most recently with .net. I’ve always found Visual Studio to be a rich environment and hoped someday that experience would extend to encompass Oracle development. It’s nice to see that day is today!

My dev team and I starting building the Quest database schema provider (DSP) for Oracle support almost 1 year ago. We are leveraging the open extensibility of the database tools layer in VSTS and Quest’s extensive codebase of Oracle support to allow Oracle developers to work offline to design, develop and version control database schemas. Over the coming months we will blog about all of the great features in this product. I can’t wait to get the beta out there to see all the cool ways this gets used.

–Daniel Wood

 About Me:

I am currently a development manager at Quest Software, Inc. where I’ve worked since 2001. My time at Quest was spent primarily developing and delivering database management tools. I’ve worked in a wide variety of industries developing database, web, and client applications using a variety of technologies. When I’m not coding I try to hit the beach, the ski slopes or the trails; the further away from a computer the better.

What I hope to accomplish with the database schema provider to is to make life easier for us database developers. Nirvana for this project is to be able to sit down with Visual Studio and focus on solving the real world problems involving an Oracle database instead of spending time fiddling with disparate pieces of software.

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