Archive for the ‘dotNet’ Category

Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5

Wednesday, March 17th, 2010

Microsoft has provided a number of charting controls that can be downloaded for free and included in .NET 3.5 ASP.NET or WinForms projects. To use them with Visual Studio 2008, one needs to install an add-on that provides VS toolbox and intellisense integration. These controls are now included ...

Microsoft OracleClient Deprecated

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Microsoft announced System.Data.OracleClient will be deprecated after .NET 4.0. Classes in the namespace will be marked obsolete in .NET 4.0 and removed from future releases. OracleClient is the ADO.NET provider for Oracle developed by Microsoft and shipped as part of the .NET Framework Class Library. This decision has sparked controversy among ...