Archive for June, 2009

System.Data.OraClient deprecated in .NET 4.0

June 17th, 2009

It seems that Microsoft is dropping their Oracle ADO.NET Data Provider and suggest to use a third-party one.
The Decision
After carefully considering all the options and talking to our customers, partners, and MVPs it was decided to deprecate OracleClient as a part of our ADO.NET roadmap. 

I kind of understand this decision, they want to improve [...]