Question

I want to retrieve rows from an oracle table and convert them into objects.

I am currently using a refcursor result and a datareader in c# to manually convert the rows to objects but this seems messy. Is their a better way of converting rows from a relational table to objects?

EDIT: The project I’m on is not using any ORM tools so unfortunately it is down to little old me to do the mapping!

Answer 1

You can use UDTs and utilize the new ODP functionality to get the data.

this is a walkthrough on getting started:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/hol08/dotnet/udt/udt_otn.htm

while this is a bit more detailed:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/E10927_01/featUDTs.htm

but the real meat & potatoes are already installed on your computer after you install ODP in the Samples directory:
%ORA_HOME%\product\11.1.0\client_1\odp.net\samples\2.x\UDT

Utilizing UDTs has helped out our origination and the time response is great.