Moving to Visual Studio??

[Gijsie]

Hi,

We are a small company (2 developers, 6 other people) and develop "out of
the box" applications for local government. Our databaseplatform is Oracle.
We will stick with Oracle since all out customers will stick with Oracle. We
develop in Borland Delphi (with DOA-components) and in Borland JBuilder
(with JDBC). We are now considering to change our main development platform
from Delphi to Microsoft Visual Studio.

Things that worry me:
Does Visual Studio always asume you are working with MSSQL.
Will we have to use ODBC.
Can you keep deploying simple. (I want to have one exe that can run from a
CD)

Can anyone please share their experience with developing in Visual Studio
towards Oracle databases. And what version (Professional, Enterprise or
Architect) do you recommend. And should I worry about totally different
things?
Thx
Gijs de Wolff
Beheervisie b.v.

[garfitz]

Gijs,

While the .Net database layer (ADO.NET) can communicate with oracle
using ODBC, there is a set of managed classes specifically for Oracle
and so performance is there.

I'm not sure what versions are supported - check out the VB.NET or C#
google groups.

There will be certain functions where SQL Server is supported - but
these are peripheral rather than central to .NET.

I do know other delphi developers who have switched to .NET and are
more than happy.

Architect has good XML schema modelling etc..
If you are working for local government then the .net compact
framework is useful for mobile apps.

Hope this helps.
Garrett.
"Gijsie" <gijs.de.wolff@beheervisie_.nl> wrote in message news:<40*********************@news.xs4all.nl>...

Hi,

We are a small company (2 developers, 6 other people) and develop "out of
the box" applications for local government. Our databaseplatform is Oracle.
We will stick with Oracle since all out customers will stick with Oracle. We
develop in Borland Delphi (with DOA-components) and in Borland JBuilder
(with JDBC). We are now considering to change our main development platform
from Delphi to Microsoft Visual Studio.

Things that worry me:
Does Visual Studio always asume you are working with MSSQL.
Will we have to use ODBC.
Can you keep deploying simple. (I want to have one exe that can run from a
CD)

Can anyone please share their experience with developing in Visual Studio
towards Oracle databases. And what version (Professional, Enterprise or
Architect) do you recommend. And should I worry about totally different
things?
Thx
Gijs de Wolff
Beheervisie b.v.