New Videos: Oracle 21c .NET and Visual Studio Code Development
In the past few months, Oracle released several new 21c software updates for .NET and Visual Studio Code developers. In this blog post, I’ll highlight new videos to help you get started using these releases and learn what’s new.
Oracle Database 21c Express Edition
First up, we have Oracle Database 21c Express Edition (XE). After all, before you can create a .NET database app, you need the database.
Oracle Database 21c XE has all the attributes a developer wants. It’s free to use, deploy, and distribute and it’s available with both Windows and Linux native installers. It includes all the major Oracle Database Enterprise Edition features so that developers can take their code and development experience to any Oracle database edition for production deployment, or they can use XE in production instead.
XE is designed for on-premises database developers, of course. For cloud development, Oracle Database 21c is available for free via the Oracle Autonomous Database in the Oracle Cloud Free Tier. This tier remains always free for up to two database instances. It never expires.
To help you get started using Oracle Database 21c XE, my colleague, Christian Shay, has created a video to get started installing and setting up the database.
ODP.NET 21c
Now that you have the latest database release, it’s time to check out some of the new 21c .NET developer features. I’ve blogged about these new ODP.NET 21c features before, which include binary JSON column type and Client Initiated Continuous Query Notification (CICQN). So, I won’t repeat myself. With Oracle Database 21c available both on-premises and on the cloud, I created a video focused on describing and demonstrating these two cool developer features.
Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio Code 21c and More ODP.NET 21c
Tools are essential for developer productivity. Oracle delivers with a new 21c VS Code tooling update. My colleague, Christian Shay, blogged about the new 21c tools release, including Oracle Autonomous Database integration. Later on, we co-presented on both the new ODP.NET and Oracle Developer Tools for VS Code (ODT) features at Oracle Database World.
This recorded session allowed me to describe and demo more ODP.NET 21c features, including support for .NET 6, Entity Framework Core 6, and user-defined types, as well as the previously mentioned binary JSON and CICQN. In the second half of the video, Christian demonstrates the latest ODT 21c features.
I hope you learn more about what’s new with Oracle .NET 21c with these videos. We plan to provide more tutorials and videos in the coming months.
If you’re interested in .NET and OCI, you can get started configuring your own cloud instance now by signing up for an OCI Free Tier account!
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