Binding query parameters by name with ODP.NET

Question

I\'m currently using the Microsoft ADO.NET provider for Oracle (System.Data.OracleClient). I\'m aware that it is certainly not the best Oracle provider availabl

Answer 1

As for the discontinuation of the Microsoft ADO .NET provider for Oracle :

• I will go on using it instead of ODP .NET, your problem being only one of the numerous issues with it. And as it goes, it will still be available in .NET 4.0, though unsupported.
• If Oracle manages to render this provider unusable, I will probably go with a commercial alternative such as DataDirect ADO.NET Data Provider for Oracle or dotConnect for Oracle, that fully integrate into the ADO .NET framework. And they already support the Entity Framework, by the way (I believe Oracle stated ODP .NET would not).

ODP .NET took too much of my time already.