Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2022

Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio

Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2022 is a free Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to connect to your Oracle Database and Oracle Autonomous Database, browse and modify schema objects and data, edit and debug PL/SQL, generate SQL deployment scripts, perform schema comparisons, tune SQL and .NET app performance, and more. Use Oracle Cloud Explorer to easily create an Always Free Oracle Autonomous Database instance in the cloud and begin developing your database app in minutes.

These tools are a required component to enable development with Entity Designer and Table Adapter Configuration Wizard. Use these tools with Oracle Autonomous Database and Oracle Database servers on any platform (Linux, Unix, Windows).

Note: To install the online help, please view the instructions in the release notes.

Key Features

• Oracle Autonomous Database Integration

  View and Manage your Oracle Autonomous Databases from Server Explorer. You can quickly create no cost Always Free Autonomous Database instances from Visual Studio, automatically download credentials files and be connected to the database to work on code within minutes. Try out Always Free ADB today! To learn more, view this step-by-step walkthrough.

• Adhoc SQL Execution, Data Editing, Stored Procedure Testing

  When testing your .NET application you can use the Oracle Data Window to insert and update Oracle data. There's also a testbed for testing stored procedures and an Oracle Query Window for executing any SQL statement you choose.

• Browse and modify an Oracle Schema

  Use Server Explorer to connect to and browse your Oracle schema and view and modify data. Then launch one of many Oracle designers and wizards to create and alter schema objects.

• PL/SQL Editor and Debugger

  Leverage all of your favorite Visual Studio debugging features from within PL/SQL code. You can even seamlessly step from your .NET code into your PL/SQL stored procedure code and back out again!

• SQL Script Editor and Execution Engine

  Edit Oracle SQL*Plus scripts and run them from inside Visual Studio.

• SQL Script Lifecycle with Source Control Integration

  Generate SQL scripts for Oracle schema objects that your .NET application uses, manage them in an Oracle Database Project, check them into source control, edit the scripts in the Oracle SQL Editor, and execute them with a built in SQL*Plus execution engine.

• Oracle Database Project

  Store a set of SQL scripts representing your schema in Oracle Database Project and check them into source control. Build a single SQL deployment script that takes dependencies into consideration.

• Schema Compare Tools

  View differences between two schemas and generate a diff script that can modify a target schema to match the source schema. Compare live database instances and/or an Oracle Database Project containing a set of SQL scripts representing a schema.

• SQL Tuning and Application Tuning tools

  Use Oracle Performance Analyzer to tune your .NET application's use of Oracle Database via a single click of a button. The database is then monitored under load and recommendations are made. You can also execute and tune ad-hoc SQL statements in Query Window with SQL Tuning Advisor.

• Multitenant Container Database Features

  Developers using Oracle Database can easily and quickly create, clone, plug or unplug pluggable databases for use during development and testing.

• Online Help

  The Oracle SQL and PL/SQL User Guides, Oracle Data Provider for .NET Developer's Guide and Error Messages and Codes are available as online help and searchable. To install the online help, please view the instructions in the release notes.

• Entity Designer and Table Adapter Configuration Wizard

  These tools provide integration with built in Visual Studio data features and are required if you wish to use these designers and wizards.

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