Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET

Oracle has released a new beta version of this fantastic add-in for Visual Studio, the new features in this release include:

• Enhanced integration with Visual Studio 2005
• Improved ASP.NET web developer support
• Support for automatic code generation in Microsoft Office projects
• An Oracle Database Project to provide source control of Oracle SQL scripts
• An Oracle SQL script editor
• Built in support for executing SQL*Plus scripts
• Integration with Microsoft Query Designer
• Oracle User-Defined Types (UDT) support including custom class .NET
  code generation
• A new designer for granting and revoking database privileges

Christian Shay has written a new white paper showing all the new features in this release.

Oracle also has a beta release of ODAC 2007 for ODP.NET posted.

All this will certainly make developing against the Oracle RDBMS database better for developers using the Visual Studio 2005 toolset.