Talking bosses into changing to .NET

[elziko]

Next week we are going to start discussing the merits of upgrading to VB.NET.

I'm doing a lot of Oracle access from VB and have come up against a problem. ADO(VB6) does not support BLOB data types. It only supports LONGRAW for binary data and this is to be discontinued!

So, can anyone tell me if ADO.NET does support the BLOB data type? This would be a massive plus point for upgrading.

And what are the greatest reasons for everyone else wanting to upgrade? I need ammo!

Cheers

elziko

 

[Guest_imported]

There is a discussion of BLOB and ADO.NET here:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q308042.

The main reasons for upgrading are:
1. Expose any existing windows application as a web service.
2. Excellent development tools.
3. ASP.NET is faster and more scalable than ASP.
4. The development time with VB.NET is shorter than with VB. Also, you should expect a very significant reduction in the maintenance time for VB.NET applications.
5. Write and consume web services.
Cheers,
Aleksey

http://www.csharpcomputing.com

 

[elziko]

Is the article you linked to just as relavent for Oracle as it is for SQL Server?

Thanks,

elziko