By now most of the .Net community is well aware that .Net 4.0 and VS2010 will ship with System.Data.OracleClient deprecated. This means your .Net application will build with warnings. BUT, it will still build and work, and Microsoft is still providing critical patch support for this Oracle .Net provider.

I’ve fielded a number of questions about this move and what impact it may have on the Oracle Database Schema Provider we are building for VS2010. The short answer is that it will have no impact. While our DSP intially relied on System.Data.OracleClient we’ve already planned to move to ODP.Net in order to take advantage of the richer feature set. ODP.Net and other 3rd party providers will be able to keep pace with Oracle releases better than a library that ships with .Net(which would be coupled with .Net releases rather than Oracle releases).

So overall, this isn’t at all as detrimental as it may seem on the surface. In the end any software product that moves to ODP.Net or a 3rd party provider will benefit from increased features and release timing.

Daniel Wood.

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Check out the new TeamFuze playlist. We’ll be posting videos there from time to time so make sure you subscribe.

Also, here’s a DEMO of the DSP for Oracle working inside of Visual Studio Team System 2008. (NOTE: This is the very first demo, recorded in February 2009, and has only a small amount of functionality coded. The demo was done in VSTS 2008, though the DSP feature will be available in VSTS 2010. The first beta release of the DSP will be available VERY SOON and will only work with VSTS 2010 Beta 1…)

This is an interesting video about why VSTS is a good investment. Source: www.bitpipe.com

Visual Studio Team System: Why It’s a Good Investment in Today’s Challenging Economy

We’re going to be showing off our warez at the ODTUG conference in Monterey, CA in two weeks (June 22 - 24). We’re nearly complete with the beta at this point and hope to have it ready for distribution VERY soon! At the show, you can see the beta in action, running in VSTS 2010, and ask all of the questions you can think of. Look for us in the Quest Software booth (#12) and we’ll give you a free TeamFuze t-shirt!

We’ve set up a Twitter feed, so all you Twitter-heads can keep track of what we’re doing: http://twitter.com/TeamFuze