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Now that I let out of the bag that I worked on a big Oracle/ADO.NET project the last 6 months, I can point to the release of the Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET. This VSIP package for VS is absolutely invaluable if you are doing any .NET work for Oracle. I can't emphasize how much the Oracle tools to this point absolutely suck. Most of the Oracle guys I dealt with don't even use their own crappy tools and use TOAD instead. SQLPlus is hideous. So I used the beta of the new Oracle Tools the last few months and it saved a ton of work. The Oracle Explorer works a lot like the Server Explorer in VS for SQL Server. You can browse tables, schemas, stored procs, etc. The killer feature is that I can bring up a PL/SQL proc with IntelliSense and edit it in a VS window, hit save and it compiles it in place, showing errors on the bottom. The sheer pain of going back and forth between TOAD and VS, or even worse SQLplus is gone. A must have if you are doing this work!
Andrew has had a go at "getting VSTS working with CCNet, got build and source control working the next step is the unit testing. Unless someone can tell me otherwise then for a standalone build machine you need VS2005 and VSTS to get the unit testing libs and MSTest.exe.” I don't know the answer but it's something I am interested in knowing or exploring before I do the show at DevTeach.
Also from Andrew is A night with MbUnit. I have honsetly never felt the need to go anywhere else than NUnit but I've heard and seen good things and thinking of adding this to my eXtreme.NET presentation that I am doing at VSLive! along with NUnit, NAnt, CCnet, etc.
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