C++/CLI vs. Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) vs. Visual Basic vs. XSharp (X#) Comparison Chart

Oracle Data Access Components (ODAC) are a set of Windows and .NET data access drivers and tools. They include support for .NET data access, Microsoft Visual Studio tools for developing Oracle database applications; and ASP.NET providers. ODAC provides comprehensive client support for advanced Oracle database functionality, including performance, high availability, and security, among other features. It is tightly integrated with Visual Studio to provide a seamless development experience for developers. Oracle Data Provider for .NET is an implementation of Microsoft's ADO.NET interface and provides access to Oracle databases. OLAP Data Manipulation Language (OLAP DML) is used to define and manipulate analytic workspace objects. High performance, a feature-rich mechanism for Microsoft ADO and OLE DB data access to Oracle databases, its usage, and its configuration. Provides introductory, installation, post-installation configuration, and usage information.

X# is an open-source development language for .NET, based on the xBase language. It comes in different flavors, such as Core, Visual Objects, Vulcan.NET, xBase++, Harbour, Foxpro, and more. X# has been built on top of Roslyn, the open-source architecture behind the current Microsoft C# and Microsoft Visual Basic compilers. We have added a new options page (tools/options/text editor/X#) where you can control which suggestions the editor will suggest in the "general" code completion list. Code completion after a colon or dot will show namespaces, types, members, etc. And code completion after AS or IS will show types and namespaces. Several preprocessor fixes to make the preprocessor more compatible with FoxPro and Xbase++. We have also added the #if and #stdout commands. We added several smaller fixes in the RDD system to improve the compatibility with Visual Objects, XBase++ and FoxPro.