Question

I am migrating off of Microsoft’s OracleConnection class for a asp.net-mvc website given that its being deprecated. I see on the oracle site, there are 2 different options, one is the Oracle ADO Provider for .Net 4 and the other is Oracle ADO ASP Provider for .Net 4. I am trying to figure out the difference because the code that I use to access Oracle in my site is not web specific (its sitting in a different project to the main MVC project and I plan on using this library in desktop apps as well).

Can someone explain the difference between these two libraries and advise on which one I should use for my situation?

Answer 1

The Oracle website can be a problem! 🙂

The ADO provider is the standard data access code for Oracle from .NET:

Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) features optimized ADO.NET
data access to the Oracle database. ODP.NET allows developers to take
advantage of advanced Oracle database functionality, including

Real Application Clusters

XML DB

The Oracle Providers for ASP.NET you mention, is a specific release for helping with things like ASP.NET State Management, Membership and Roles:

ASP.NET provider developers will discover the
Oracle Providers for ASP.NET are easy to learn and use as they share a
common schema and API with existing ASP.NET providers. They integrate
seamlessly with existing ASP.NET services and controls, just like
other ASP.NET providers.

Oracle offers the following providers:

Membership Provider

Role Provider

Site Map Provider

Session State Provider…