This section describes Oracle Data Provider for .NET provider-specific features and how to use them to develop .NET applications.

This section contains the following topics:

• Base Classes and Provider Factory Classes

• Code Access Security

• Connecting to Oracle Database

• Real Application Clusters and Global Data Services

• Using Transaction Guard to Prevent Logical Corruption

• Application Continuity

• Database Sharding

• OracleCommand Object

• ODP.NET Types Overview

• Obtaining Data from an OracleDataReader Object

• PL/SQL REF CURSOR and OracleRefCursor

• Implicit REF CURSOR Binding

• LOB Support

• ODP.NET XML Support

• Oracle User-Defined Types (UDTs) and .NET Custom Types

• Bulk Copy

• Oracle Database Advanced Queuing Support

• Continuous Query Notification Support

• OracleDataAdapter Safe Type Mapping

• OracleDataAdapter Requery Property

• Guaranteeing Uniqueness in Updating DataSet to Database

• Globalization Support

• Debug Tracing

• Database Application Migration: SQL Translation Framework